Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Chris Christie

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

Chogyam Trungpa

In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

Chinua Achebe

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

Chinua Achebe

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chief Joseph

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

China Mieville

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Eddie Izzard

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

William Shakespeare

Greatness knows itself.

Bertrand Russell

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Al Ries

Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.

Al Pacino

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

Al Pacino

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

Al Pacino

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

Al Lewis

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

Akshay Kumar

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.