Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Chogyam Trungpa

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Djuna Barnes

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Diane Wakoski

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Dianna Agron

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Carl Sagan

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

Byron Katie

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Cesare Pavese

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life.

Deborah Sampson

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

James E. Faust

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

David A. Bednar

The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Henry B. Eyring

We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts.

Meir Soloveichik

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Jay Johnson

Are there concerns? Of course. Have those concerns been allayed? Of course. This isn't about covering over what happened. This is about how we can move forward from that day, doing the work of atonement and forgiveness.

Ayn Rand

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Mark Mellman

Kerry had an opportunity in the debates to show the American people his strength and conviction and to lay out his plans, and people have responded very positively to that. So we see trends nationally moving in our direction and trends in battleground states moving towards us as well.

Michael Ratner

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

Richard Cripps

There are no signs here that give you the impression that the selling pressure has bottomed. There's just not a lot of conviction out there.

Larry Rice

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Brian Dawkins

We know we have to hit the ground running. We're starting off with St. Louis, and you can't get harder than that.

Julia Brown

We've actually improved upon what's on the ground out there today.

Wyclef Jean

There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.

Khadga Oli

We strongly oppose this. The imposition of a curfew is unnecessary, illegal and illogical. There is no ground for this.

Myles Rademan

We've used up the water in the basin, pretty much. We've used ground water and mine water for 120 years and we've stripped that.

Bill Murray

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

Bill Murray

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

Bill Murray

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.

Travis Plunkett

We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy.

Charles Dickens

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chris Barton

We know what it takes to win. Hopefully we will do the work it takes to get back.

Weldon Nelms

We know we will have the same mental breakdowns that every team will have, we just have to hope they don't come at inopportune times. At least then we will be able to work on them during the weeks to come.

Roger Ashby

We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Chogyam Trungpa

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Uday Kotak

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Randy Dunton

Our inability to find somebody who can give us a punch in the lane is a real handicap.

Carl Sagan

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Scott Wilson

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

John Sweeney

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

Ron Barber

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.

Mark Twain

He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits

Atharva Veda

May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Cheryl Stewart

He wanted her to satisfy his sexual gratification.

Dick Bartholdi

That was as satisfying a win as we've ever had here.

Sherry Sturner

That works fine. That would satisfy everything we want.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Greg Evans

There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.

Brian Sutherby

It's pretty satisfying to shut him down after all that was said back and forth.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

John Schwartz

My savior has a first name. It's J-E-S-U-S. My savior has a second name. It's C-H-R-I-S-T,

George Foulkes

He seemed like a savior and I supported him but I must say I'm totally disillusioned now,

Jamie Foxx

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.

Shay Carl

I think our Savior wants us to be happy on this earth. That's why we're here is to have joy.

George Washington Carver

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

John Newton

I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior

Henry B. Eyring

The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Pat Summitt

I thought she was tremendous when she settled down.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Milwaukee Brewers

He never got settled in. He couldn't find a groove. He never got going,

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Or have they settled an affair? Then surely We are the settlers.

Laura Evans

I went through three different titles before I settled with this one,

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Charles Dickens

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Charles Stross

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Charles Spurgeon

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Charles Spurgeon

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Charles Spurgeon

We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.

Charles Spurgeon

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Charles Spurgeon

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

Charles de Gaulle

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Alan Watts

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Alan Perlis

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

William Shakespeare

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Edith Wharton

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Edith Wharton

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.