Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

Billy Corgan

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

Billy Corgan

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

Billy Corgan

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Billy Corgan

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

Bill Crawford

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

Bill Cosby

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

C. S. Lewis

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

C. S. Lewis

I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.

Abbott L. Lowell

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Carine Roitfeld

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

Cameron Diaz

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

Alan Cumming

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Dennis Crowley

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that youre in over your head.

Aristotle

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

A. E. Housman

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

Adam Levine

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David Gerrold

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

Jeffrey Herman

He had a reign of terror for three decades.

Blaise Pascal

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

John Milton

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Arabian Proverb

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Henry IV

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Alexander Pope

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Andrew Marvell

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

Edward McKendree Bounds

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.