Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thomas Haden Church

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Vanna Bonta

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Susie Bright

Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

Suzanne Collins

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

Suzanne Collins

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

Taryn Simon

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

Sophie Kinsella

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Paulo Coelho

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Thomas a Kempis

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

Joseph Conrad

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

John Keats

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

Kailash Kher

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

Owen Feltham

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Still, everybody wants to eat.

Albert Einstein

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

Alfred Molina

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.

Alfred Marshall

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

Alex Chilton

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

Alec Baldwin

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.

Alec Baldwin

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.