Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Reich

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

Allard Beutel

We are looking at that what can we do for people who had homes nearby, who want to work but don't have a home to go back to at night.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Thomas Murray

I lost everything, mister, everything -- credibility, business,

Garth Nix

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

James Billups

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

Kay Granger

I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... You lost the battle.

Michael Charles

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Rod Smith

The season is nowhere near over. We just can't go undefeated. That's the only thing.

Baha'u'llah

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Kelly Clarkson

I always get bored, and I like to do different things, but it isn't something I'm going to do in the near future.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Blaise Pascal

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Brother Lawrence

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

E. Stanley Jones

If we know how to pray, we know how to live.

E. Stanley Jones

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

E. O. Wilson

No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.