Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Han Suyin

I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.

Pope XIII

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man

Richard Bach

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Larry Long

There's a real freedom without all that stuff, once you learn to get by without all the things you thought were necessities.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Tariq Khan

We're not taking away their freedom of speech. We're letting people know that Hyatt is supporting these people.

Bill Rosendahl

We are living in the 21st century. It is time we respect our elephants, give them their freedom and put them in a sanctuary.

Charlotte Kasl

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

Joe Mesi

I think that, as crazy as it sounds, the two-year layoff might be a blessing in this situation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

Orison Swett Marden

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

Bo Sanchez

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didn't really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

Jerry Johnson

We are just trying to be a blessing to the community. We know a lot of people lost a lot during the last two hurricanes,

Cardinal Mahony

We have the great joy today of introducing and blessing a new rose which has been developed.

Abigail Adams

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

A. P. Herbert

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

James A. Baldwin

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

George Washington

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

Henry Miller

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Henri Frederic Amiel

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Cassandra Clare

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

George Eliot

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

George Eliot

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.