Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

Charles Caleb Colton

You cannot separate charity and religion.

Charles Dickens

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Akshay Kumar

IIFA is always involved in charity, and that's why it's a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them.

Chinua Achebe

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Hope is a leg of a 3-legged stool with Faith and Charity.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity.

Agnes Repplier

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

Charlotte Bronte

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ...

Charles Spurgeon

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Alan Bennett

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

Ayad Allawi

leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law.

James Stephens

To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.

Abu Bakr

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

William H. O'Connell

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

Terry Gilliam

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

James E. Faust

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

Samantha Harvey

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

Julie Jameson

None of us walked into it blindly. Our husbands sat us down and told us what to expect.

John Gay

One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

Rita Rudner

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

Maya Angelou

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Lynn Caine

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

Sarah Howard

A lot of husbands want their wives out there with them. Until we start outshooting them.

Terry Cooper

It's nice to know that our husbands and sons won't be forgotten.

Timothy Ferriss

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

Christina Baker Kline

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

William Kamkwamba

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

Otto Rehhagel

I have been observing Samaras for quite a while and now was the appropriate time to select him.

Richard Jefferies

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Michael Korda

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

Yogi Berra

You can see a lot just by observing.

Werner Heisenberg

The very act of observing disturbs the system.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Cathy Freeman

Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Chang-Rae Lee

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Bill McKibben

If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world?

Alan Watts

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Cesare Pavese

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Deborah King

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

Dick Cavett

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

Elizabeth McGovern

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Cheryl Richardson

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Linus Roache

I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

Imelda May

I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I've never had a facial, and I don't get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself.

Randy Pausch

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Frank Richard Stockton

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Tim Anderson

I think that the stock's probably washed out for a while,

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Dave Barry

I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

David Stockman

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Traci Bingham

He said she was beautiful. And that he'd never been with a woman so beautiful.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.