Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Soule

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Stross

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Charles Spurgeon

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Alan Watts

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

Alan Watts

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Earl Warren

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Charlie Munger

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

Ani Difranco

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

Jeffrey Eugenides

All wisdom ends in paradox.

George Carlin

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

George Bernard Shaw

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Oscar Wilde

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

Jack Bruce

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

Brandon Marshall

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions

Ted Sarandos

'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

Hayao Miyazaki

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

Gavin Rossdale

Any reaction is better than none.

Michael Aspel

People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.

G-Eazy

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

Kevin Bailey

There's a wide variety of reactions in trauma situations, so I would say, yes, it could be,

Jack Canfield

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Jim Palmer

FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH