Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Shusterman

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

Khalil Gibran

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

Narendra Modi

Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.

John Adams

My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

Richard L. Evans

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

Richard L. Evans

If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.

Tucker Max

... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

Warren Buffett

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Walter Bagehot

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Samuel Richardson

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Wayne Dyer

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

William H. Gass

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

William Barclay

God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Rose McIver

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

Virat Kohli

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Riccardo Muti

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Rob Bell

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Uma Thurman

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Robin Wright

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge

Robert Preston

I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.

Robert Plant

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.