Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice--that is, all excess--brings its own punishment even here.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer...

Charles Spurgeon

Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

Charles Spurgeon

When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

Charles Spurgeon

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.

Alan Bean

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

Al Roker

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Charles Dickens

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Charles Caleb Colton

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Bob DuPuy

We want to stay in Washington. We're very pleased with the reception that people in Washington gave to the team. We're continuing to work with the mayor, we're continuing to work with the council and we're hopeful that we can get it done.

Rich DiPentima

The point of this whole thing is to look at your continuing operations within your infrastructure.

Monte Shaw

We are proud to welcome Corn, LP as the 21st ethanol plant in Iowa. This plant is a showcase of the continuing innovation and improvement in the ethanol industry.

Giles Morgan

We're in continuing dialogue and we're hoping it'll be resolved as soon as possible.

Ted Saskin

We spent the last four days in small group meetings continuing to review and negotiate various systemic and economic issues. The two sides will resume small group discussions on Monday in Toronto.

Diane Forden

Where is our National Guard when we need them? Theyre over in Iraq, ... Why is our government continuing to pursue the wrong priorities?

Bob Graham

We have no intention to let this incident preclude us from continuing those flights.

Charlie Munger

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

Jim McCafferty

This theme is continuing and not just in the mining stocks, but in any related sectors. This is a macroeconomic trend.

Trace Devanny

The outcomes NCH Healthcare System has experienced are a testament to how healthcare IT provides clinicians with the tools to improve quality of care This technology has helped dedicated physicians and nurses to become more operationally efficient, fundamentally improving how care is delivered.

Kirsten Gillibrand

A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise.

John Cena

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

Doug Harvey

I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.

Caryn Jeffreys

She has just been continually dedicated to every show. She's always participating and helpful.

Holly Tachovsky

She knew her job had risks but she was dedicated to it. Not that we know it had anything to do with it.

Doris Burke

She is the person most dedicated to enhancing the women's game in the big scheme of things.

Dennis Hastert

Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service,

Richard Adams

There is no doubt, Mr. Quillen is a dedicated leader.

David Potts

We are looking to be respectable in our division and make the league playoffs again, ... We have a good nucleus of returning players and plenty of experience gained from last year?s run in the league and district playoffs.

Tim Mueller

There are some exciting things happening in the park district, and I'm having a lot of fun. I love the work, and being a part of what the park district provides for the community. It keeps me going.

Chuck D.

We started off slow and then put it together to get our scoring going. It's good to be 3-0 at this time in district play.

Emma Brooks

We started off a little slow, but we picked it up. We just executed the way we practiced. It's good to start district off on a positive note.

Tommy Aldridge

We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we went into the lobby where the teams were, it looked like a lobby of WNBA players. We split our games in Tennessee (going 2-2) and I was proud of that. We went 22-12 and won the district championship.

Cynthia Zea

We start district Tuesday. The games we missed out on are games you just won't get to prepare.

Kevin Ford

What the school district is doing here . . . is prohibiting a student from quoting the Bible.

Ken Perkins

When you say a school and a district is going to be judged on this, and then it's not a valid test, that doesn't seem right.

Matt Jones

We were too loose. We just talked about ending the district schedule on a good note. We wanted to come in here and win at Bloomington. This has always been tough place for us to play.

Vicki Lutz

We've already felt the ripple effect of donations leaving. I was in New York when 9/11 happened and many smaller, local nonprofits actually folded. We need help now more than ever.

Vicki Lutz

We've already felt the ripple effect of donations leaving, ... I was in New York when 9/11 happened and many smaller, local nonprofits actually folded. We need help now more than ever.

Dan Carter

We're more a service organization to the community. I don't know the percentage, but for us here, it's just like any other donation you'd give: You know if you give it locally, it'll help the people you want it to.

David Brooks

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

Brian Bilbray

She is being extremely hypocritical. She has taken donations from registered lobbyists.

Andy Kerr

This process has taken over three years. We are grateful to Orange Township for the gift of this land, and to the trustees for their work with us on this donation ...We are grateful to Planned Communities, as well, for their part in making this happen.

Kimberly Turnbow

We're always looking for volunteers, money and donations of wool yarn.

Aaron McLear

We have procedures in place to make sure we're following FEC regulations, and we've always done that. We're doing all we can do to ensure these donations are given appropriately.

John Mackey

The outpouring of love and support via donations will really make a difference; we are so appreciative of our shoppers.

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

C. Wright Mills

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Charles Gounod

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Bing Gordon

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Steven Hatfill

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Johan Cruyff

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Bruce Allen

We have improved the foundation of this team with young players. It gives you high hopes.

Edmund Burke

Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.

Emmylou Harris

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

Katie Holmes

He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend.

Sir Serota

Sir Edwin Manton was one of the most generous benefactors in Tate's history,

Mark Hammond

She was very generous, also. She had a very generous soul.

Bob Day

Medicaid is not a generous program in terms of who can receive services. We aren't a state that has a lot of fluff in the program in terms of who we cover.

David Stewart

There are generous people in this community. We have a pretty tight application process, we want to know where our money's going.

Donald Trump

America will be a prosperous, generous, and inclusive society.

Jeff Fettig

have always been generous in reaching out to help others during times of need.

J. C. Watts

When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

Jeff Jodon

Gingrich did a real nice job. We're getting some young people stepping up. That meant a lot.

Moby

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Tom Hall

The people who don't know about him will know by year's end. He's the total package. He's big, he's strong, he's quick, he's aggressive. Nothing but upside to him. He's a kid who I think will be big-time if he keeps working and improving every week.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

Tony Hawk

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

David Marsh

This was a strong day for us, so we should have scored a lot of points. We did, and I am very pleased with that. We will have to keep improving from here.

Andrew Dorais

She has been improving all season long and really peaked at just the right time.

Rebecca Riddle

We've been improving every year that I've been here.

James Kelley

We still have plenty of improving to do, especially in the secondary , but I think we made an important transition tonight. As long as we keep moving in the right direction, I'll be satisfied.

Richard Bernstein

There is a thin line between a liquidity-driven market that anticipates improving fundamentals and a bubble,

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Laura Innes

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Dan Ware

We're here to provide as much protection as possible. We're here to save lives first, and then do as much as we can to protect property.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Brian Regan

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!

Albert Einstein

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

John Podhoretz

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

Mark Hyman

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

Stephen Hawking

Marilyn. Newton seems to have been an unpleasant character.

Bertrand Russell

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

Joe Hart

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

Felix Klein

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Graham Chapman

She turned me into a newt. ... But I got better...

Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Pete Carroll

He's been to the mountaintop, so to speak,

Source Unknown

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

Heath Ledger

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

Tom DeLay

advising the speaker and the leadership. I worked the votes, did it all.

Horace

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Harvey Kronberg

The speaker is weaker today than he was a week ago.

Teodoro Casino

This is unfortunate because the Speaker turned back on his words. He stabbed us on our backs.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.