Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Izaak Walton

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ''Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did''; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Wilferd Peterson

By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.

Wilferd Peterson

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

He was like a godfather to all of us. He's like your good uncle or something. He was a pal.

Shreya Ghoshal

I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.

Maurice Sendak

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

Allison Anders

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

Janet Jackson

I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.

He who waits on God never waits too long

He who does not love does not know God; for God is love

Billy Mitchell

He named it after Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, of poetry and of healing.

Richard Baxter

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

Rebecca West

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Saint Augustine

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

Russell Hoban

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Ronald Ross

This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave? Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

Tyler Perry

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

Rick Danko

God don't like complaints.

Raymond Chandler

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

William S. Burroughs

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

William Lawson

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

William Law

We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.

William J. H. Boetcker

Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a moral regeneration, before there can be permanent peace and real economic recovery. To this end we do not need new laws, but a new spirit; we do not need a change of government, but a change of the human heart. There can be no peace, there will be no recovery without it. Therefore, with a change of heart, let's all make a new start.

Vinoba Bhave

Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

Woodrow Wilson

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Woody Allen

Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, "Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job. Don't blow it."

Woody Allen

My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?

Woody Allen

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

Woody Allen

Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.

Woody Allen

I had an IQ test. The results came back negative.

Woody Allen

If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic.

Woody Allen

If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out.