Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

Jim Haney

The Palm is proud and excited to host this unique charity event.

Shannon Woodward

I worked for a charity for a while, but... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.

Tim Finchem

That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform.

Jane Addams

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

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 E. Faust

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

Henry B. Eyring

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

Arlo Guthrie

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

William Shakespeare

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

D. H. Lawrence

Too much of the humble Willy wet-leg / And the holy can't-help-it touch.

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.

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.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

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.

Otto Rehhagel

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

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.

Christina Baker Kline

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

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.

Werner Heisenberg

The very act of observing disturbs the system.

Yogi Berra

You can see a lot just by observing.

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.

Brian Eno

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

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.

Larry Templeton

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

Barbara Ehrenreich

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

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.

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.

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.

Alan Watts

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Cheryl Richardson

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

Cheryl Strayed

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

Barbara de Angelis

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Desiderius Erasmus

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

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.

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.

Linus Roache

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

Tim Anderson

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

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.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).

Agnes Varda

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

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.

Ricky Gervais

I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

Don Cheadle

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

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.

Kate Winslet

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

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

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.

Oriana Fallaci

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

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Traci Bingham

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

Laura Marling

Womanhood is something you dont consider until it hits you.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.