Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

Amy Carmichael

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse ...

Albert Camus

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

Anjem Choudary

The Christians and Jews can live side by side with the Muslims, as they did in the heart of Europe for over 800 years in Andalusia.

Robert Black

Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It should not be forgotten that nature will correct the pendulum, so that is does not swing too far either way.

Rita Mae Brown

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

Richard Watson

The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.

Richard Engel

Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.

Thomas Paine

As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man rather than in God. It is a compound made up chiefly of Manism with but little Deism, and is as near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious, or an irreligious, eclipse of light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.

Travis Paquet

We were down by two with eight seconds left to go, but they made some foul shots and we couldn't convert.

Torii Hunter

Seven or eight home runs. He's got like 12 at-bats with eight shots.

E. B. White

I'm always happy to get a W. I think Lacey got a little tired at the end. I noticed she seemed to lose a little of her legs. Of course, yesterday she spent eight hours at a track meet.

Scott Rolen

Now would I have taken eight or 10 weeks? Sure, I would have. At the time, I'm ready to go, the doc says I'm ready to go, it's fine.

Bill Belichick

Getting all the run defense, seven or eight or however many guys, in the right places on any given play isn't easy. You can have everybody going hard, 110 percent, but if one guy is out of position, there's space there for the runner.

Jim Sanderson

Give AUM all the credit. They really took it to us in the last eight minutes.

Doug Erny

Free throws are key. I think they (Wildcats) ran out eight straight points because they hit free throws and we didn't.

Terry Phillips

From eight years ago, everything has gone up and made a significant impact on cost. This will recover our costs.

Mat Sprague

From where've come, third place and eight qualifiers is huge.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Mark Indelicato

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.

Gordon Parks

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

J. C. Watts

As well as the strong sense of composition found throughout his art, there is an underlying sense of ironic humor in much of Trank's work.

Mike Law

About a half-hour before the game started I found out I didn't have my starting quarterback (Ethan Sylvain). He hurt himself after school and I had to tell Kyle Martel he was going to play quarterback, and he hadn't played in three weeks.

Jass Stewart

The more we reached out the more we found out that plan was affirmed by the people of Brockton.

Marty Turco

It's just another game we found a way to win.

Ray Giacoletti

They made their runs and most teams would have folded. They were up by one point and our guys hung in there. It's never perfect on the road, but we just found a way.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The young Wolf was one of those people who would recite a poem to themselves a hundred times, until they had found the music that goes with it.

Mehmet Okur

They have great post-up players with Kidd and Jefferson. Usually we struggle (against them), but we found a way to help each other and I thought we did a good job tonight.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Neil Gaiman

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Nora Ephron

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

Nasser Hussain

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

Mason Cooley

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jerome K. Jerome

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Francis Bacon

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Ernst Mayr

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

Henry David Thoreau

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

William Herschel

... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

William Herschel

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

William Herschel

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

William Blake

Execution is the chariot of genius.

William Cowper

Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.