Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William James

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William Ellery Channing

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Robinson Jeffers

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

Vladimir Lenin

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Vladimir Lenin

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Juanita Johnson

I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that could have been my daughter, now I'm weeping to thank God she's with me and praying for the others.

A. Johnson

I thought something like this wouldn't happen until maybe next season, ... I know how hard it is for offensive linemen to break in on this level. Getting back to my natural position has really been a blessing for me. I'm much more comfortable now.

Joe Mesi

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

Marvin Oliver's

I think it was a real blessing for all of us. It's not always going to be sunshine. Even in a rainy situation, you can still prevail. Sometimes, you just have to see what modifications you can make.

Jim Wilkes

He had to be hungry. And I look over, and he's saying the blessing before he eats.

Trai Byers

Live, laugh, and love!! Blessings!!

William Wordsworth

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

William Wordsworth

It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

William Ellery Channing

Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.

Wallace Stevens

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

Zhuangzi

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Winston Churchill

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

Rick Warren

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

Robert Green Ingersoll

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

William Hazlitt

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.