Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

Nick Rahall

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Mary McCarthy

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

Mark Twain

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Mark Twain

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Nicholas Sparks

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Neal A. Maxwell

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

Mitch Daniels

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

Mark Wahlberg

If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amy Sedaris

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

Amory Lovins

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Anthea Turner

Maybe, instead of paying so much in tax, the very rich could be incentivised to help their local community and young people who do not have a home.

Anthony Braxton

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

Andy Stanley

Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

Angela Ahrendts

I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

Ang Lee

Every movie I make, that’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand but feel most at home.

Anatole Broyard

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Sam Palladio

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

Sally Phillips

I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

Ruth Rendell

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Rumi

When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

Rumi

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

Rumi

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Rumi

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

Rosa Luxemburg

The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.