Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Lolo Jones

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.

Dean Stanley

High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

Bobby Bowden

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.

Win Butler

I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.

J. M. Roberts

We're not teaching the Bible to the point that is getting it into people's hearts. A lot of churches stop after presenting biblical principles.

Hubert Burda

The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.

Billy Graham

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

Brad Watson

We do drama, we do lots of videos, high-energy media kinds of entertainment things for them, but the main thing is the worship and Bible teaching ... with (speaker) Jeff Kinley.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Klaus Toepfer

These facts are especially poignant when you factor in the impact of climate change which is triggering more extreme weather events like droughts.

Anita Frazier

The seeds of change are taking root, and we'll see the results in a few years. It isn't here yet.

Dwight Freeney

The Steelers are who they are. They like to pound the ball. It's going to be hard for them to change much at this point.

David Boies

The statute says you need only have a sufficient number of votes to change or place in the doubt the results of an election. (Sauls) has not even looked at any of the ballots.

David Lawrence

The statute says that they're supposed to also amend other charter provisions that are related to the size change, and gives for example a change in any kind of quorum. It's a complicated issue.

Mike Quigley

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

Steve Monks

I see three reasons why we lost. We did not hit the big shots when we needed them, we couldn't get any consecutive scores when we needed a run, and coach Monks didn't change defenses and go to the man pressure earlier in the fourth quarter.

Pat Binns

Islanders have quite clearly said they're not ready for a change at this particular time,

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Ashish Sophat

The Smalness of BIG people is.....when Big ones don't Do something BIG for smaller ones

Sophie B. Hawkins

The Tea Parties are only here because people are not listening.

Tom Davis

The task before us is considerable. The American people want the facts, ... It's about getting the facts, not getting even.

Ed Waldapfel

The system works because the people are qualified. They (requesting agencies) know what they're getting.

Jim Zollweg

The swarm is a little unusual, but we don't know that it's unusual enough for people to be worried.

Andrew Buchan

The three people I've always wanted to meet are Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and Steven Gerrard.

Ken Hitchcock

The third period was tremendous. A lot of people played very, very well today.

John Jones

The thing that you don't know when you come up with an idea that is different is - Will people take to it?

Asif Kapadia

The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

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

Anna Quindlen

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

Anna Quindlen

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

Andre Benjamin

I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody."

Andre Gide

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.

Tony Robbins

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

Tommy Hilfiger

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

Steven Soderbergh

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

Bobby Fischer

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

Andrew Sullivan

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.

D. H. Lawrence

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

Dan Brown

Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.

Andre Malraux

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

Ambrose Bierce

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Chuck Todd

We know broadly from research is that religiosity does not correlate with sympathy for terrorism. It's actually quite the opposite. The more religious someone is, the more often they go to the mosque, the more likely they are to actually reject attacks on civilians.

Chuck Pagano

Ive always been a religious person.

Chuck Norris

I'm a very religious person.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Keith Busse

We're not going to go out there and start whacking heads.

Tim Floyd

And if he's able to go, we'll start him.

John Tortorella

We did what we had to ... start re-establishing us at home.

Peter Beutel

You don't make a top when things start to look bearish; you make it when things look bullish,

Woody Norris

I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.

Georges Harik

We are going to start working to federate all the other networks.