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.

Bebe Neuwirth

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to get back to work,” Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. “Killer skirt. Deadly legs.

Ryan Whitney

I went to put my stick between his legs and lift his stick up, but I just got him too high. I didn't mean to spear him. It was just an accident.

Norman Black

I think this is the first time I saw my big men have the legs to run up and down the floor. JC (Intal) and Doug (Kramer) showed that tonight.

Leon Bridges

My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.

Julie Miller

I think our legs just weren't with us in the final.

S. Hughes

I thought I was going to die, my legs were seizing up. And then when I could move, I started crying, I was just so happy.

August Wilson

I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!

Brad Ausmus

I am a little tired and my legs are heavy.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.