Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Marilynne Robinson

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.

Mary Stewart

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.

Patricia Briggs

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Pat Nixon

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Pat Paulsen

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

Paddy Chayefsky

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

Pablo Casals

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

Philip Larkin

I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear....

George Herbert

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Sarah Dessen

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

Saint Augustine

God is best known in not knowing him.

Wes Bentley

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

Zainab Salbi

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

Zig Ziglar

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

Tye Sheridan

The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.