Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Studd

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Charles Stanley

You may have the gift of giving.

Charles Spurgeon

I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Elia Kazan

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

John Ortberg

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

Og Mandino

Today.....I begin a new life".

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

J. C. Ryle

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

P. C. Cast

So I was beginning my new life as a anomaly, which figured about as much as it sucked.

Ouida

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Imre Kertesz

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

Marcel Proust

L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.

Aeschylus

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

Jim Parks

My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift.

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

David Levithan

These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.

Gary Fisher

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

George Best

I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.