Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together

Sophie Hannah

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Garry Trudeau

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

Mike Reynolds

I think the out of bounds play gave us the momentum.

Rowan D. Williams

I think the Christian gospel is bound to be putting questions as to how we organise our society, how we make our political decisions.

John Ashcroft

Last month's Supreme Court ruling that federal judges are not bound by sentencing guidelines is a retreat from justice that may put the public's safety in jeopardy, ... Which of our daughters, wives and husbands -- are we willing to sacrifice to return to revolving door justice.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

Kathleen Horning

We've been thinking a lot about what the boundaries are.

Mike Ross

To explore the possibility of creating a visual environment that has an equal degree of complexity and layering to play off the sonic world that he created, that is the boundary that is being pushed. We're going to learn a lot from this experience.

Vincent Van Gogh

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.

Ken Ford

Hopefully, these pictures and the great words from people who really have a love for Jesus will strengthen thousands of Christians in their faith.

William Wilberforce

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

William Wilberforce

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

William Wilberforce

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

William Wilberforce

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

William Wilberforce

If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go

Albert Barnes

In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).

A. Hodge

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

Thomas Carlyle

The first of all gospels is, that no lie lives forever.

Jimmy Carter

It was not a gospel piece at first. We helped transcribe it to a gospel play.

Mary J. Blige

I listen to gospel music.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently.

Marvin Meyer

We will be talking about this Gospel for generations to come.

Ronnie Milsap

For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.

John Styll

People will always need hope, inspiration and ultimately salvation, and gospel music provides a path to all those things.

Alexis Herman

We have to preach the savings gospel message, ... It's an important message for all Americans today.

Brad Paisley

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

Lisa Snowdon

I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Willie Brown

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Willie Brown

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

Lynne Dickey

I'm just waiting for my turn, and I'd still be putting it off if Dr. Heinrich didn't have this anterior approach.

Matthew McCaffery

Their service is respectable, but putting them together - it was uncomfortable for the city.

Paula Creamer

All I can say is they had better get ready because they're going to get beat. I'm putting it down. I'm very confident.

Bill Spears

still putting some feelers out and seeing what's going on out there.

Jill Davis

It's sort of a symbol of us putting down roots.

Ann Barney

It was more us putting everything together as a team.

D. James

It's going to take off, you know, so that's not even a concern. We're going to be putting up some points, no problem.

Jeff Ross

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Najib Razak

I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Sonny Jackson

He was in there long enough to raise questions.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Michael R. Bloomberg

If there are questions about that to be raised, you may rest assured, I will be raising them.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

Orlando Cabrera

These are complicated questions that require complicated answers. It's going to take some time.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.