Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Augustus Hare

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Jane Fonda

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

Jan Karon

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

Elliott Abrams

If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting.

C. S. Lewis

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

C. S. Lewis

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

C. S. Lewis

Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.

C. S. Lewis

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

Ibrahim Jaafari

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

Rafael Cruz

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Roger Pilon

There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day.

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

Raila Odinga

The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward.

Thomas Sowell

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

Robert Anton Wilson

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Al Naomi

There's no upper limit to category-5, so we're looking at the highest level, the mid-range level, and lower level, maybe like a Katrina-type storm.

Swami Vivekananda

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Giuseppe Pisanu

We are considering the highest possible risk of an attack, ... and we are preparing ourselves for the worse possible threat.

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

Tom Brokaw

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

John Pironti

The Social Security number is the Holy Grail. It's the one piece of information about a person that can be used to unlock all other pieces of their personal information.

Nick Swisher

D.J. can flat-out hit, holy smokes. I'm looking for big things from him.

Lauren Holly

Did you see the first episode? Did you see what we were doing in that flashback? Holy cow. Yeah, I think there's going to be some interesting stuff between Mark and me.

Lauren Holly

Did you see the first episode? ... Did you see what we were doing in that flashback? Holy cow. Yeah, I think there's going to be some interesting stuff between Mark and me.

Pope Benedict

We wish to pray for peace in the Holy Land.

Abu Bakr

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

Rajneesh

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

Stewart Udall

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

Stephen Covey

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Linda Jackson

The big questions have to do with moral development because there is not much research,

Joe Biden

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

David Vincent

A record's a record. A number doesn't have any moral value. People do.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Bille August

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Lisa Murkowski

Together we have to let the nation in on a valuable secret: When it comes to our natural resources, Alaskans know what we're doing.

Mark Elliott

Everything we do this year is for us to peak at the national tournament.

Dick Cheney

There's nothing that's more important to us, because at the end of the day, our national security is at stake,

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Cheryl Beckett

I stand with all of you who are every day out there making our state, nation and world a better place.

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Susan Estrich

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

Edward Brooke

I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Joan Roscoe

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a professor of English. Her writing is wonderful, wonderful writing.

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Alain de Botton

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Elbert Hubbard

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Stephen Jay Gould

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Adolf Hitler

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Sathya Baba

You are all separate beads strung together on that one thread, God.

Damon Lindelof

Those who survived are separated for the first third of the season.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.