Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Jerry Falwell

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

William Cowper

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Wayne Dyer

Each day begins with a prayer of thank you...

Wayne Dyer

Live as if your prayers are to be answered.

Rodney Atkins

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

Robert McAfee Brown

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

Susie Bright

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Sylvia Plath

Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.

Sylvia Plath

I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.

Sylvia Plath

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

Swami Vivekananda

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is in our blood.

Rumi

I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.

Tom Robbins

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

Tom Robbins

We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but its to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Plato

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Ernest Hemingway

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Eudora Welty

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Cassandra Clare

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.