Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Augustus Hare

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Jane Fonda

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

Jan Karon

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

Elliott Abrams

If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting.

C. S. Lewis

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

C. S. Lewis

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

C. S. Lewis

Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.

C. S. Lewis

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Brian Tracy

We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.

Brenda Ueland

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Brad Pitt

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

Boyd Rice

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

Boz Scaggs

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

Cardinal Richelieu

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Daniel Handler

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

Boris Johnson

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

Bai Ling

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Jane Austen

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Billy Connolly

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Bruce Dickinson

If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Dennis Weaver

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.