Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.

Albert Schweitzer

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

Albert Schweitzer

You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

Albert Schweitzer

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Albert Schweitzer

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

Albert Schweitzer

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

Charles Spurgeon

May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.

Charles Spurgeon

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

Charles Perrault

The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Denis Hayes

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

Edgar Allan Poe

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

David Bowie

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

Abdu'l Baha

When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.

Jennifer Gordon

If we can just keep the sunshine going for a week or so, we'll be well on our way to recovery.

Al Smith

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

Dave Barry

There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

Vince Young

Wow, I'm shocked. Supposed to be Sunshine City. I'm shocked.