Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Abraham Lincoln

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Albert Schweitzer

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

Brian Tracy

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Arthur Koestler

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Miller

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Aristotle

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Alan Cumming

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Charles Dickens

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

Charles Sturt

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Spurgeon

A good character is the best tombstone.

Charles Spurgeon

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Charles Spurgeon

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Charles Spurgeon

For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Alan Bennett

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

Chloe Sevigny

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jim Flaherty

Public service is good for you,

Leon Panetta

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Marco Rubio

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

Shirley Temple

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.