Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

Charles Caleb Colton

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Charles Dickens

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

Charles Dickens

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Charles Spurgeon

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

Charles Spurgeon

You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

Charles Spurgeon

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Aulus Gellius

The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

Alfred North Whitehead

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Geoff Mulgan

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bob Wagner

That one (cell) was particularly vigorous and long-lasting.

Michel de Montaigne

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

Ray Bradbury

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

Michelle Malkin

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Judy Gold

When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

Blaise Pascal

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Abraham Kuyper

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Aldous Huxley

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Dominique Moceanu

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

Edith Hamilton

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

Erma Bombeck

When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.