Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

Charles Dickens

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Caleb Colton

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

Charles Caleb Colton

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

Charles Caleb Colton

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Charles Dickens

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Without worship, we go about miserable.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

Carl Sagan

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Bill Johnson

We always become like the one we worship!

Bill Johnson

Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.

Bill Johnson

The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.

David Gemmell

All beauty is sad. For it fades.

John Corry

His voice is his great weapon. It is not an orator's voice. It is husky, and sometimes it fades to a whisper. Meanwhile, it is extraordinarily intimate. Mr Reagan does not speak to audiences; he speaks to individuals.

Cedric Benson

I got it all down, ... I think just being off, it fades away a little bit. But it all comes back.

Robin Williams

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

Lord Byron

Adieu, adieu! my native shore / Fades o'er the waters blue.

Susan Grayson

They start out following an experienced inspector and then gradually that experienced inspector fades back and lets this person take the lead.

James Lasdun

For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.

Nadine Gordimer

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

Mike Tyson

I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.