Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Bede Griffiths

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

B. B. King

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...

Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Bill Shorten

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

Bill Cowher

It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.

Bill Cosby

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

C. S. Lewis

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

C. S. Lewis

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Ben Jonson

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

James L. Petigru

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

George Saintsbury

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

C. S. Lewis

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

C. S. Lewis

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

Andre Agassi

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

Ken Stevenson

I'm so used to having them there. It's a pleasure.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Ronde Barber

He turned it on. It was a pleasure watching him.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.