Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

William Wilberforce

If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go

W. H. Auden

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Emily Bett Rickards

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

Joan Didion

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

Steve Friedman

It's The Mourning Show. Is it true that the theme song is going to be "Taps"?

Catherynne M. Valente

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Anton Chekhov

I'm in mourning for my life.

Edmund Spenser

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

Alice Miller

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Roger Williams

The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the reign of the beast and antichrist of Rome. This witness is probably near finished, and the bloody storm of slaughter is yet to be expected and prepared for.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

William James

Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Robert Southey

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Neale Donald Walsch

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jonathan Swift

What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.