Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

Bill Cosby

It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.

C. S. Lewis

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Benjamin Rush

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion...

Benjamin Rush

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

Benjamin Rush

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

Benjamin Rush

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

John Piper

The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy.

Kelly Quinn

I watch him every Saturday on TV, and I get so nervous for him, ... He calls me before and after games to see how I do and to wish me luck. We both pray for each other and send each other Bible verses.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Josh Pool

Our line did a lot of work this week. We ran the plays over and over again. (David) English had a really good game. Our linemen really stepped it up.

Rachel Ward

People in Hollywood, they're looking for pretty girls, and if you take it seriously enough and work hard enough, you get the Guernsey.

Martin Fleischmann

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Jimmy Vasser

Outside of the car, she's English and very proper, ... But inside the car, she's forceful. She doesn't sit and wait. She goes after it.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Paul Konerko

Really, you can split that thing five ways. Those guys were unbelievable.

Bret Meuli

Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost games. If we could have had five innings back, we would have made the playoffs. The playoffs are our goal.

Eric Etchison

Our offense got complacent. We got up by four or five runs and the offense just went stagnant.

Kenichi Chizuka

Our original outlook was that we are looking to win five medals. Talking with the various federations, we might get two or three more.

Stan Smith

Our (offensive) line is amazing. If the line gets off and gives the back five yards, it opens up a lot of things. I can't stress enough how well they do.

Steve Roach

People have been saying that for five or six years. You can only put these things off for so long and then the day comes when your realize you're in serious danger.

Peter Lynch

People have been looking for recessions for the last five years,

Leslie Peterson

People need the help now. Easily, I could give out five times what I give out.

Martha Stewart

People make jokes about making lemonade. I actually like lemons. These are my first lemons in five months,

Nazmul Hoque

Such a sudden notice to the dealers has forced them to stop selling of the fuel to the customers.

Scott Taylor

Our press saved us and forced a lot of turnovers.

Brian Bishop

Pine Plains outplayed us. They forced a lot of turnovers and we couldn't handle the pressure.

Heather McAdams

That was just to get our intensity back, and not settle for low-percentage shots. Because of those strict rules, it forced them to start looking for each other again.

Ronda Rousey

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

Greg Goodwin

It forced them to get out and play our shooters.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Rachel Tucker

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Daniel Stewart

Regardless of what party you are, you have to learn how to play in the same sandbox because nothing will kill redevelopment quicker than combative local politics,

Ed Fleischman

People learn something and take it away so they can do it again. It is very gratifying.

Sheila Dikshit

People have to learn to pay for what they use,

Mark Mitchell

Survivors of London and the survivors of 9/11 and I just pray that people would be safe and learn to know the Lord.

Anna Kournikova

Surfing people haven't learned anything from the I Love You virus,

Raymond Mason

Sure it's frustrating when you lose, but you can't use being young as an excuse. When you're learning, there's always something new to unfold and you find the right way to do your job. We know we can still be better this season.

Michelle Young

Some of our players will only have been with us a day, so it should be a real learning experience,

H. Hart

Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

Lindsay Davenport

Someone said she served at 125, 126 (miles per hour) here. So I have to learn some more about her.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

B. F. Skinner

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

Esai Morales

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Christopher Gorham

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

Jimmy Johnson

It didn't have anything to do with him being elected. It wasn't something that he was taught to do. It was something that he had in him.

Terry McBride

He was the one that taught me that women can fight.

Anthony Swofford

He taught me how to read as a writer,

Kobe Bryant

He taught me how to play the game. He's the coach, I'm the player, ... We don't think we're going to have any problems.

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

Greg Romano

I had no idea that there are 2,350 verses on this subject.

Patrick Kavanagh

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

Joss Whedon

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

David Elias

I think it's wonderful what we're going through,

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.