Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. A. Milne

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Abraham Cowley

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Evan Thomas

Yeah, sort of good. I mean, there's a split in the Republican Party. Republicans used to be, once upon a time, for fiscal conservatism, and there are a few of those left, and they're starting to murmur more, and, you know, people forget Ronald Reagan raised taxes, you know, he cut taxes, but then he raised taxes. George Bush, the father, raised taxes. It's not, there's no law in the Bible that says a Republican can never raise taxes.

Jan Peterson

We are excited at the prospect of reading the entire Bible and having someone explain it to us.

Robert Ingersoll

The real oppressor, enslaver, and corrupter of the people is the Bible

Fred Hammond

The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

Elie Wiesel

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.

Billy Graham

I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Abel Ferrara

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Neil Young

At our school, we deal with kids who have brain injuries, strokes, cerebral palsy, things like that. I'm very familiar with that. So I was thinking of not being able to do what I do. It didn't freak me out. It just made me think: Now you've got to play this card. Now you're going to do what you can, in the time that you have.

Mark Ruffalo

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

Eric Jensen

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

Napoleon Hill

Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

Timothy Evans

Not enough health workers are being trained or recruited where they are most needed and increasing numbers are joining a brain drain of qualified professionals who are migrating to better paid jobs in richer countries.

Samantha Heller

It makes sense when you realize that compounds in foods are literally incorporated into brain cells. So eating healthy foods will stack the deck in your favor for a healthier brain and a better mood overall.

Neil Tennant

I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money

Jules Verne

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Sathya Baba

Devotion is not a uniform to be worn on certain days and then to be put aside.

Fran McCaffery

(Diop) has been great. He's doing more things, getting more comfortable. I have tremendous respect for Thompson. He's certainly a handful. To be able to put somebody in who's at least the same size as him is certainly helpful for us.

Pepper Schwartz

Cosmetic surgery is more negatively viewed by Americans because it is threatening to become so commonplace. People feel pressured to look a certain way if everyone you know who is 50 is having surgery to look 40.

Poppy Z. Brite

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Paul Coffey

There are certain guys that think they know hockey because they follow it on the Internet.

Shahid Kapoor

When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that.

Steve McQueen

I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I can do, but when I'm bad, I stink. There's something about my shaggy dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good.

Steve Vai

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It's funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom's music, it surprises them.

Steve Buscemi

My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out mostly with your family. I don't think it's unique to the Buscemis, but it's something I've been able to tap into when I play certain roles.

John Stuart Mill

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

Mason Cooley

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

Michel Onfray

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.

Francis Bacon

The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.

George Orwell

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

G-Eazy

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

Chris Hayes

One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.

Garth Brooks

Life is only therapy.

Chris LeDoux

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

Garth Brooks

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

George Eads

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Cassandra Clare

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver.

Cassandra Clare

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

Gary Oldman

The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you're working with someone who's in it, and you've been there and done it, but you're not in it anymore, you feel so good.

Chris Hardwick

One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.

Jeaniene Frost

If I’d known you were such a lush, I’d have given you the cheap stuff. Going to go out with a bang, are you?

Jeremy Irvine

I like doing stuff with my friends.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Albert Camus

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Annie Besant

When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

T. S. Eliot

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Susan Sontag

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Scott Adams

I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.

Ray Davies

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

Ray Davies

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

Ray Davies

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.