Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Deepak Chopra

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

Bo Sanchez

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

Bernard Cornwell

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Dmitry Medvedev

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Brian Jones

He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.

Christopher Parker

I get on well with everyone, but I like Jessie Wallace and Natalie Cassidy. Natalie was my mentor when I joined, so we're really close.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Colin Powell

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Bob Groves

One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.

Brian Halla

Now that we have the months of December and January finished, we felt it necessary to factor those results into our earlier projections and issue this update.

Heather Ridout

New orders jumped sharply in the month. Manufacturing experienced moderate growth in December to end the year in positive territory.

Daniel Alfredsson

Obviously, it's going to get tougher, I think, in the second half because of the schedule and the Olympics. So, I think, right now, we're making the most of a good schedule for our team. I think we have only four road games in this month, and then December is tougher for us. But definitely after the Olympic break, we have a tougher schedule. But the way we're going now, I don't think we should slow down and we just have to keep pushing ourselves every night and keep trying to improve to be better.

Al Groh

we might be going till December without him, and I don't think about it. . . . The only time I have a discussion about it is when I'm talking with you guys.

Michael Linenberg

Given that the first half of December is a relatively quiet time for travel, Delta has been able to re-accommodate most of the passengers on other Delta flights.

Jason Chaffetz

From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.

O. Henry

From December 2002 until the end of 2004 it was pretty much laughed out of the room,

Kurt Eichenwald

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.