Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is just profit-taking, ... There was no event trigger at all. People had a good trade on (selling dollars) either side of Christmas and now it's just coming off.

J. August Richards

Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.

John Brady

It's not Christmas, it's New Year's. But maybe we gave them a game.

That's the good thing since Christmas, we haven't had to rely on one player. For 2 1/2 seasons, we had to rely on one player. If they were hot, we were hot. If they were not, we were not. It's been really nice to have five, six, seven, eight guys to throw at them. I'm very proud of them.

That is money, money, money for 10 days around Christmas and New Year's, ... Everything makes a lot of money.

That is difficult. The combination of having to finish the district schedule two weeks before the tournament and not wanting to play district games before Christmas makes us load up on our schedule.

It's time for us Christians to come out of the woodwork and take our stand for what's right and what's wrong in our community. I'd like to help our young people, keep them off drugs and get them into the right relationships.

Craig Scott

I want to get it done before Christmas.

They were playing in two tournaments over the Christmas break, so they had a split squad. I'd say they had about half of their varsity players and had some players from their j.v. team.

They'll wait to see how Christmas shapes up, and if it's weak, they'll give another rate cut in January.

Tom Izzo

It was like Santa's elves working on Christmas day.

Dana Williams

Oh my word, man. It just comes to life for you as a parent. My goodness, no wonder Christmas has hung in there all these years, 'cause all these parents dig it.

Next Christmas will be the HSDPA Christmas. We'll be launching a full portfolio of 3.6Mbps HSDPA handsets -- low, middle and high-tier -- in the second half of this year.

Not having it would be like not having Christmas.

It was a good Christmas present for us to win.

It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.

It's kind of like Christmas. It's on Dec. 25 and then all of a sudden they say, no, it's Jan. 3 this year. A hurry-to-wait type scenario.

It's like making a Christmas wish list -- a list if it happens .

It's a loss. All of my kids' Christmas presents ... they didn't get to enjoy them. We just got back from Wisconsin.

Tom McCarthy

It's always a blast. As much as we think we give people a good Christmas, the people give us a better Christmas.

Pope Paul VI

Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically Christian life, given over to God in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbor with limitless zeal. As we said recently to a group of lay people, “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

Nhat Hanh

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

John Greenleaf Whittier

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

Moby

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

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.

Kathleen Parker

Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor their deity, we'd have a commemorative postage stamp ready by next December. But let a Christian mention the baby Jesus to a kindergarten class and the ACLU wants an exorcism...

Pat Robertson

If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant but at times physically bloody. When it is over, I am convinced God's people will emerge victorious.

Pat Robertson

The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.

Pat Robertson

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

Pat Robertson

It is important for people to recognize that those who are working for the dissolution of our society have a spiritual agenda. They are not merely attempting to dismantle the historic cultural values of this nation and move us toward a homogenized world. They also want to destroy Christianity and Bible-based religion. It is a clear part of their agenda and they have already moved a long way in that direction.