Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Base

There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic.

William Ellery Channing

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

Vincent Van Gogh

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

Raf Simons

The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

Frederick Soddy

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Emily Carr

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

Bayard Taylor

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

Lion Feuchtwanger

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Salman Rushdie

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

Neal Shusterman

Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.

Marian Wright Edelman

In politics, there are no friends.

Joss Whedon

Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

Emily Dickinson

Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

Charles de Gaulle

France has no friends, only interests.

Chelsea Handler

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

Aristophanes

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Robert Farrar Capon

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

Saint Basil

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

William Gurnall

One Almighty is more than all mighties

William Barclay

Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.

William H. Seward

There is no social life outside of Christendom.

Yann Martel

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Orson Pratt

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

John Gresham Machen

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.