Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Soule

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

Charles Sturt

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

Charles Stanley

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

Charles Spurgeon

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Charles Spurgeon

I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

Alan Watts

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Alan Ball

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Chris Colfer

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.

Chris Colfer

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

Chris Abani

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

Chogyam Trungpa

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

Chogyam Trungpa

But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.

John Winder

Two generations ago, all we had were oral steroids with a lot of side effects, ... But now, with inhaled steroids, there are still side effects, but nothing like they used to be.

Maxine Hong Kingston

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

John Trudell

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.

Isobelle Carmody

First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.

David Mackay

Oral presentations could also be important, with the wider skills of problem solving and working with others.

Quentin Braun

Talented and versatile you say? Nope, just an oral bottom, an anal top and everything in between.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

John Gandy

As we got toward the end of the year, he was indicating some things he had to complete.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

David Dearborn

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

Larry Davis

Everything has to go perfect. We're working toward that date. We'll see if we make it.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.