Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Charles Spurgeon

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Charles Spurgeon

The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.

Charles Spurgeon

I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

Charles Spurgeon

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

Alan Moore

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God and said, 'O Lord, this is what you may expect of me if You leave me to myself.' He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God, and gave himself no further concerns about the matter.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

Chris Christie

How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.

David Dunn

Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.

David Brainerd

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Audrey Hepburn

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Denis Thatcher

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Cindy Cohn

We are pretty happy with the tenor of the questions asked.

Ben Gunn

We've all been training since October and this (state title) was what we were all going for. I'm just so happy to be a part of this team.

O. Henry

We usually struggle to go through but I think we are all happy about qualifying. Other teams are struggling to go through -- and we have been there -- but we are in the last 16 now and it's a nice thing to already be through.

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Chad Kroeger

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

Charles Spurgeon

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

Alan Paton

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

Alan Rickman

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

Alan Moore

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

Alan Moore

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Matt Blunt

worth it to protect the lives of Missouri children.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Jim Cavanaugh

It's just too important. We are talking about lives here, ... I'm not going to walk away from it. Period.

Derek Luke

It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.

Kevin Kwan

A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I'm from that part of the world, I'm no longer part of that world.

Hilary Rosen

American music has touched everyone's lives throughout its short history,

Julie Johnson

Also, I have a parent volunteer who lives and breathes 'The Wizard of Oz,' and doing this show for the school's first play was partly her idea too.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Mike Garcia

It's been rough here down on the ranch, about the driest I've seen it since I moved down here seven years ago. It's rough on the trees. All the pine trees we've been planting are just turning brown.

Rupert Graves

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

Jarret Stoll

A lot of players moved around in the off-season and a lot of teams are better. And we're one of those teams.

Erica McKenzie

They moved the puck well and you can't give that team time to make decisions.

Troy Polamalu

They moved the ball, you know what I mean,

Matthew Wilson

It struck me as unusual when he was moved into a policy role in the first place. It took him out of his natural environment.

Italian Proverb

Years and sins are always more than owned

Todd Tate

They pretty much did whatever they wanted to do. They owned us on the glass.

David Hoffman

As Doug says, the people are not owned by anyone. When Doug is elected, he will serve the people.

Mary Phillips

People from town feel that something they owned should be shared.

Michelle Monaghan

I've never owned a pair and really wanted them.

Oscar Isaac

Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

Ron Darling

One thing about that team is they owned this town.

John Conley

From 1992 to 2000, Motorola owned the project.

Daniel Petrocelli

I would have never owned those ugly-ass shoes.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.