Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

C. S. Lewis

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Ayn Rand

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Arthur Koestler

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

English Proverbs

When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.

David A. Bednar

Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Peace; come away: we do him wrong/ To sing so wildly: let us go.

B. B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Bernadette Peters

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Ryan Stiles

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

Alison Moyet

I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.

Carine Roitfeld

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

Charles Farrar Browne

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.

Morihei Ueshiba

Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.

Pope Francis

Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

Sri Chinmoy

What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.