Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

Charles Caleb Colton

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

Charles Dickens

-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

Alan Watts

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...

Alan Moore

I have so very much. I have so very little.

Alan Jackson

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Benjamin Franklin

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection.

Ben Affleck

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

Jean Giraudoux

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

Ron Barber

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.

Atharva Veda

May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.

Carson McCullers

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Anne Bronte

But, God knows best, I concluded.

Charlie Pierce

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

God knows what is in me in place of me.

Euripides

The God knows when to smile.

R. C. Sproul

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

Jon Bon Jovi

I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.

Robert Plant

I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.