Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John XXIII

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Church needs your faith, your idealism, and your generosity, so that she can always be young in Spirit.

Paul Di Filippo

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Pope John Paul II

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

Joan Didion

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

Erik Erikson

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

John Irving

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

John Mott

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

Leo Tolstoy

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

Julianna Baggott

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

Leonard Cohen

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

Leon Botstein

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

Lord Chesterfield

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

John Lahr

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

John Banville

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Jimmy Cliff

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

Joel Osteen

Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

Joe Biden

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

Madeleine M. Kunin

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Thomas Jefferson

One generation cannot bind another.

Thomas Jefferson

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Thomas Jefferson

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

Richard P. Feynman

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Rumi

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Steve Israel

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Rebecca Solnit

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

Ruth Ozeki

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Tony Judt

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

Steven Spielberg

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.