Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Denis Waitley

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Bill Moyers

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Charles Handy

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Charles Caleb Colton

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Dickens

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

Charles Studd

It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Edward Gibbon

The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.

Edith Wharton

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

David Horowitz

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

David Hockney

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

David Hockney

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

David Brooks

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Denis Leary

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

Denis Leary

I wanted a more female point of view.