Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Charles Spurgeon

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles R. Swindoll

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

Dennis Rodman

I don't trust what this life has given me.

Demosthenes

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Demosthenes

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

Democritus

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Elbert Hubbard

The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

Chris Duhon

If only we had an answer. Trust me, we don't know.

Charles Peguy

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

Martin Lee

The proposal is an insult to all people who want to have democracy as early as possible. If we support the government, it would be a complete betrayal to our voters.

Walter Benjamin

I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

O. Winston

To know you've got that disease and not even care, and it's just a total betrayal to all of the children and their families.

Charles Spurgeon

The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.

David McCullough

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

David Rakoff

I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.

Catherynne M. Valente

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

August Wilson

I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.

Thomas Fuller

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

E. W. Howe

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Patricia Ryan

Deliver more than you promise.

Mark Twain

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Hannah Arendt

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

George Chapman

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Luc de Clapiers

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Mahatma Gandhi

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Ovid

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.