Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

David Morrison

What we're seeing here is a laying bare of the political process without the euphemisms, without the sugar-coating. People are recoiling.

Helio Castroneves

Unfortunately, I think we made the wrong choice on our race setup, and the Marlboro Team Penske car had a tremendous push in Turns 3 and 4. Those corners were my biggest problem. I could barely touch the throttle going through there. The team made front wing adjustments on both of our pits stops, but it didn't really help. All considering, I'm pretty happy with a fourth-place finish.

J. M. Roberts

We're barely meeting the core in rural Utah.

Pam Davis

We're barely keeping up with the growth in Naperville and the surrounding communities, ... We need more beds.

Tom Halbmaier

We're barely getting beat, just one or two possessions away from winning. We've played good basketball. But we haven't played consistent.

Paul Thomson

Three years ago, I used to go out a lot and I used to drink quite a lot. On a Sunday night, I'd think, 'Right, I have to sign on on Thursday, and I can't forget that' and now, into the space of one day, I'm cramming in what then I would have done in two weeks. I can barely remember my old life now.

Dennis Conner

With these new boats and our veteran crew of American sailors, I feel this is one of the best campaigns I've ever put together. The bare hull of USA-77 just left Newport, Rhode Island two weeks ago and here she is going sailing today, which is true testament to how hard our whole team has worked to make this day possible,

Kurt Braunohler

All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Brazil Nut-hued tan to Monty Hall's oversized lamb chop sideburns. As the host of IFC's new comedy game show 'Bunk,' I, too, have worked to develop a style signature by being the first man or woman in TV history to host every show in my bare feet!

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Steve Greene

We're not scary and we don't have a hidden agenda,

George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

Gustave Meyrink

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

Tim Carter

There are so many things that can go wrong and so many hidden costs.

Simonides Simonides

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Bobbi Brown

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.

Dennis Miller

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...

Arthur Golden

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

John the Apostle

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Sharon Stone

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

Bootsy Collins

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

James E. Faust

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Erika Eleniak

I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

David Kim

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

David Kim

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

David Graeber

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Dave Barry

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Charles L. Allen

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

Bo Burnham

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.