Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Ellen G. White

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Ellen Key

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Bella Abzug

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Gerry Beckley

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

Gerry Beckley

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.

Theodore Steinberg

The point that has to be made is that national disasters are, in the aggregate, predictable, and we can budget for them, ... Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America.

Laura Garrison

The overall thing is we wanted to bring acts that appeal to a college crowd. Dave Attell just got off the 'Insomniac' comedy tour and had a TV special last Sunday, so it's very timely. He's just really funny and a lot of college kids like him.

John C. Calhoun

It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.

John C. Calhoun

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

Nick Jonas

My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were young when they were doing it, like me. Then I kind of came into my own a couple of years later; I found new artists that shaped my musical landscape. For instance, Kings of Leon played a big part in that.

Lynn Martenstein

The acts that we have been charged with are totally unacceptable, and in violation of company policy.

Charles Hynes

the appropriate punishment for ... these vicious acts ... will be available in the federal system.

Tim Tebow

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Willie Aames

I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.

Willie Aames

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

William Jay

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Billy Graham

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.

Ellen G. White

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

C. S. Lewis

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

C. S. Lewis

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

C. S. Lewis

The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

Yolanda Adams

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

Imani Hakim

I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'

Gloria Gaither

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Gladys Knight

I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Walter Lippmann

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Patrick Modiano

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

Graham Arnold

Michael Beauchamp I thought was outstanding tonight, and he's put himself right in calculations (for the World Cup).

Marge Simon

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.

Terri Smith

Who knows what he's going to do. It's two different programs. You go from Kent State to Michigan State, that's two different worlds. He owes it to himself to go there, take a look and see what they have to offer.

Dusty Baker

You let him be himself and try not to put any more pressure on him.

Bobby Cox

Jonathan has come a long way since he was a little teenager. He's made himself into a real nice player.

Chris Smith

John's been preparing himself for this role for the last three years. This is his time to shine. He's really impressed us with his work ethic. He's got to make the plays that we know he can.

Elaine Pagels

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

Common

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

Donald Ault

I'm supposed to do something from 5 to 6 p.m.. We'll see what happens.

Dwight Howard

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Ron Murphy

For me, this is like going back to where I was supposed to be.

Tim Parmeter

Go figure. We did what we were supposed to do, and we won.

Marshall Faulk

What do you do? What are you supposed to do?

Tom Burchill

We talk about having fun. This is a race, this is a sport and it's supposed to be fun. We work so hard, this better be fun.

Mario Gallucci

He did everything he was supposed to do, the right way.