Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wycliffe

What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?

Vincent Van Gogh

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.

Diane Swonk

I think the market is tired of Christmas. We've already seen the Christmas reports. As far as the market is concerned, that's old news.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Marcus Trescothick

It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.

Joe Wojtkiewicz

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

Ken Ford

Hopefully, these pictures and the great words from people who really have a love for Jesus will strengthen thousands of Christians in their faith.

William Wilberforce

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

William Wilberforce

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

Mike Archer

Knowing what I know now, I'd still come, ... My kids were here. I wanted to be close to them.

James Blake

Knowing that I was that close to a semi or final, it makes me realize that the goal going into these Slams isn't just getting to the second week. Maybe I can get in there and win one.

Duncan Fletcher

Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious.

Niels From

I wouldn't position for sharp movements -- so close to the New Year investors won't want to take massive positions. My traders say that liquidity flowing is half of a normal market.

Ron Nelson

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw him close a couple of games. We wouldn't want to throw him more than an inning, though.

Michael Schroeder

I wouldn't be buying. When we were getting yields close to 4.50, I thought they were pretty attractive.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Matt Harris

I would say it's very closely being looked at. Growers want to know, sheds want to know: Are they going to continue dumping duties or are they finally going to drop them?

Gary Anderson

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Shaun White

I don't even think I've made the finals in the U.S. Open. It's just been a cursed event for me. I didn't really want to come. I was nervous because last time I hurt my knee when I was here. ... To overcome all that, and to actually win it, it's insane.

Ron Artest

I'm looking forward to being bashed and cursed out. That's going to be a lot of fun.

Elizabeth Watson

Yes, scary. And people were telling them to 'just shut up,' and cursed at them.

Jake T. Austin

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

Toba Beta

Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.

Charles Jones

The party was about activism. Yeah, they talked a lot of smack, probably cursed a little too much, but those were the days. But they were about taking action.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

Charlton Heston

Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

Kathleen Blanco

Such falsehoods and misleading statements, made under oath before Congress, are shocking,

Danish Proverb

It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Jeremy Newberry

I think the life expectancy for offensive linemen isn't great. For me, having young children, it's a somber thought. But it's part of the job.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Roland Allen

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Henry Ward Beecher

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Ray Henderson

It was big; we were preaching it all week that we wanted the shutout, ... so we went out and we did what we had to do.

Matt McCool

That's what we've been preaching all year: When the other team does something positive, we've got to do something." ()

Tom Lehrer

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

Martin Luther

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

Michel de Montaigne

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Christopher Morley

Only the sinner has a right to preach

J. C. Ryle

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Richard Whately

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Reinhold Messner

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

John B. Keane

There were no ceilings. The walls were collapsed.

Geoffrey Chaucer

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.