Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Dennis Rodman

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Dennis Rodman

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Dennis Rodman

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Dennis Rodman

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Democritus

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Michel Faber

So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that.

David Silverman

Nobody finds God in the wake of destruction, ... Very few atheists will look at Katrina or a tsunami and think, 'Oh my, there's a God.'

Sara Sheridan

My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.

Charles Spurgeon

I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had written on a piece of paper, "God is nowhere," and ordered his child to read it, for he would make him an atheist too. The child spelled it, "God is n-o-w h-e-r-e. God is now here." It was a truth instead of a lie, and the arrow pierced the man's own heart.

Dennis Prager

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

Denis Diderot

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

David Potts

Frankl found that helping others made us stronger, and though he was an atheist when arrested, he found God at Auschwitz,

William Temple

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

William Temple

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

Alexandra Fuller

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Alexandra Fuller

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Cory Doctorow

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Malorie Blackman

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

Oprah Winfrey

Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity.

Johann Kaspar

Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man

Eytan Rockaway

Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.