Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Charles Dickens

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Charles Spurgeon

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Charles Spurgeon

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Charles Spurgeon

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

Charles Spurgeon

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Alan Watts

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Alan Watts

Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?

Alan Watts

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Alanis Morissette

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

Clint Eastwood

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong."

G. Stanley Hall

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

Frank Herbert

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Moshe Katsav

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Paul Krugman

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

Martin Heidegger

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

Terry Gilliam

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Walt Kelly

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)

Binyavanga Wainaina

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Abby Wambach

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

Doug Stanhope

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

Alveda King

In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

E. O. Wilson

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Amber Rose

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

Larry Brumley

I think they were trying to be sensitive. Obviously, Baylor is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken on the record about the denomination's views about the homosexual lifestyle.

Abner Louima

They said it was a homosexual thing. The cover-up started there.

Jeanette Winterson

A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.