Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Mirek Porosa

It was a total domination. We outplayed them with every volleyball skill and the results speak for themselves.

Clint Hurdle

As a player, I was a quick-fix type guy, ... I wanted it now. The society we live in wants everything now. We're results-oriented. Well, I've come to understand that results are just that. And sometimes they come in their own time.

Joel Parkinson

As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

Sal Sinatra

The tests from New Bolton were inconclusive. More tests are going to be done at Cornell University, and I should know the results by Tuesday.

Charles Stanley

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

Alan Watts

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Alan Rickman

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…

Alan Hovhaness

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Alan Greenspan

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

Alan Bennett

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

Cat Deeley

I can't dance at all by myself.

Bob Saget

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.

Ed Koch

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

Bette Midler

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Charlotte Rampling

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

Charlie Watts

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

Bill Johnson

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.