Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Taze Russell

In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914.

Charles Sumner

The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.

Charles Dudley Warner

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Charles de Gaulle

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Charles Dickens

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

David Hume

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Diana Gabaldon

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

Benjamin Franklin

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Anthony Trollope

It is no good any longer to have any opinion upon anything.

David Parry

The person selling will still be on the hook if there's a default on the loan even if (he or she) is completely out of the building.

Chris Squire

The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.

Mike Andrews

We had a few errors, a default in one or our printers so they actually had to replace the printer.

Gennady Zyuganov

What Yeltsin is doing is a political default which will be followed by an economic default,

Michael Gavin

Part of the significance of this vulnerability announcement is that your machine can be exploited without you needing to do anything at all. You don't even have to open an e-mail or attachment, and this happens with the default configuration of the product.

Peter Kelly

We're seeing a more enlightened Microsoft. Back in 1998, they would've tried to tell people to use their stuff more exclusively. Microsoft is saying to application developers: Don't default to Flash.

Larry Klein

The default zoning for virtually everything in town is housing. We need to examine whether we've gone too far.

Michael Roberge

The default rate will tick up, but we don't see a systemic increase.

Tim Hetherington

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.