Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Chinua Achebe

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

Garrison Keillor

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

Gayle Forman

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you

Bryan Cranston

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

Nhat Hanh

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Noel Gallagher

Thank you for the sun / The one that shines on everyone / Who feels love.

John the Apostle

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

Myrtle Reed

Somewhere on this great world the sun is always shining, and it will sometimes shine on you.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Charles Caleb Colton

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

Alan Jay Lerner

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

Al Sharpton

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

Caity Lotz

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

Catherynne M. Valente

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

Bliss Carman

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

David Hume

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.