Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Albert Schweitzer

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Albert Schweitzer

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

François Chateaubriand

One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light

Joanne Davis

My hat's off to them for doing their process in the light of day.

David Burks

Maybe everything's on the up and up. But in light of what's happened, people are just going to be naturally suspicious when these names come up.

Retief Goosen

No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,

Keenan McCardell

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

Charles R. Swindoll

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Denis Hayes

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

Todd Harris

Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention.

Dennis Prager

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Deng Xiaoping

To get rich is glorious.

Eldridge Cleaver

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Elizabeth Emken

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Eliot Spitzer

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.