Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Craig Thompson

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

Elliott Abrams

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

David Pogue

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.

Doug Harvey

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

Aeschylus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Don DeLillo

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Erik Paulsen

Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it should be, and that's only going to help me.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Jerry Only

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Judd Gregg

For all I know, the winning ticket was on that sheet,

Edward Kennedy

It's a ticket of strength; it's a ticket of hope; it's a ticket of opportunity. It's a ticket for victory, and I couldn't be happier.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Donald Barthelme

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Amber Heard

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Uta Hagen

Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.