Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Alice Walker

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Cole Porter

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

Alfred Hitchcock

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

Orhan Pamuk

What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.

Francis Chan

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

Jim Butcher

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Caleb Colton

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations...

Nick Hornby

The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

Paulo Coelho

All things are manifestations of one thing only.

Max Levchin

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

Jon Ronson

Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

Ramana Maharshi

All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being,