Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Blaise Pascal

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Brother Lawrence

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

Andrew Murray

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

Andrew Murray

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

Allan Bloom

Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.

Brian Bosworth

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Alexander Pope

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Drew Barrymore

I just didn't understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.

Dorothy Richardson

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

Donald Cargill

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

Donella Meadows

Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable?

Donella Meadows

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Don King

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

Brad Pitt

I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.

Jelly Roll Morton

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

Tyler Perry

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.