Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

Desmond Tutu

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Andie MacDowell

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

Amy Carmichael

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.

Simone Weil

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Russell Peters

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

Russell Simmons

Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, "If you curse, then you're going to hell." But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.

Stephenie Meyer

He never leaves, does he?

Stephen Colbert

What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!

Edie Falco

To some extent, she did. She knew who he was, and I think that was part of what excited her about him. She didn't know exactly what she was signing up for, maybe she didn't know how it would feel to be living this life. But she was not blind to what was going to be happening.

Michael Sullivan

What's difficult about cleaning blinds at home is that it's very messy.

Pablo Neruda

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

Don Henley

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Bible Bible

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Atharva Veda

People have become blind having lost the two eyes called faith; just because one cannot see, is God not present? May be, not for some but for others He is (present).

Brett Sharman

My parents had two blind dogs, and they did fine. I have a three-legged cat at home that had been hit by a car.

Brian Coleman

Livingstone has a blind spot when it comes to relations with the Jewish community. He has an antipathy, an antagonism, a personal dislike for the Jewish community.

Horace Mann

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Aeschylus

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.