Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Charles Dickens

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Charles Stanley

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

Charles Spurgeon

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Charles Spurgeon

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

Charles Spurgeon

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

Alan Watts

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Alan Bradley

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

David Sedaris

I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.

Carl Sagan

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Kurt Vonnegut

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

David Ricardo

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

David Hume

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

Barney Frank

The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.

Bertolt Brecht

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Agnes de Mille

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Aaron Swartz

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Craig Davis

What this is about, this is isn't about pro sports, this is about greed. This is about money, power and arrogance.

Arianna Huffington

having too much is never enough.