Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Pete Martinez

We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of chess.

Jack Womack

We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track of where everybody is.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

Larry Gerston

like a three-dimensional chess game. . . . The key is that the messages not be too far apart.

Bobby Fischer

When I was eleven, I just got good.

Bobby Fischer

Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Bobby Fischer

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

Karl Shapiro

But this invites the occult mind, Cancels our physics with a sneer, And spatters all we knew of denouement,Across the expedient and wicked stones.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Troy Newman

The president seems to do what is politically expedient, versus what is morally correct. Therefore, if we make it politically expedient for him to do the moral thing, that's what he'll do.

Don Cherry

We always trained together because the training is so intense, ... Hindsight is 20-20 - maybe that wasn't the expedient thing for me to do. I thought I was doing a good thing, offering my services.

Darren Shan

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Bible Bible

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Nicolas Chamfort

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Matt Maldre

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Aleister Crowley

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

Bible Bible

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Gustavo Kuerten

I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.

Terri Morrison

I feel they're spending money foolishly on a lot of different issues.

Samuel Butler

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.

Marc Morial

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

Stephen Merchant

I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.

Eliphas Levi

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...

James Malone

One of our philosophies is that idle plants stay run-ready, have a skeleton staff and keep the plant in the most optimal position without the machinery being run.

Lord Chesterfield

No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

Johann G. Seume

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Jeremy Collier

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Alexander McCall Smith

I am capable of being idle.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Eric Williams

I was going to be a part of something, but I really ain't a part of nothing. So I'm pretty much wasting my f---in' time. You try to be a professional, but f--- professionalism.

Jason Chaffetz

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

Norton Juster

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Heath Ledger

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

Bertrand Russell

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fernando Pessoa

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

Horace

What has not wasting time impaired?

Joshua Ferris

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

Pharrell Williams

If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.