Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nandan Nilekani

We're going to showcase the arrival of the global Indian entrepreneur.

Stephane Simean

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.

Terri Blackstock

I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village.

B. Trudeau

Since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.

Bob Muglia

We've spent some time talking to Independent Software Vendors recently and the software community welcomes the arrival of a consistent environment to this area.

Andrew O'Hagan

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

William Whipple

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

Ezekiel Emanuel

For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.

Mike Bonin

We don't know where it is, but if you base its departure point and its intended arrival spot, that's where it's going,

Henry David Thoreau

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Thomas More

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot

John Donne

I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

Rachel Platten

Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.

Johnny Cash

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Ann Druyan

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Carl Sagan

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Edward Hoagland

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Gibbon

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Edward Gibbon

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Nathan Barankin

a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.