Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Islamic Jihad

Leaders of the enemy should know that they personally are targets.

German Proverb

One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

Eldridge Cleaver

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

Elbert Hubbard

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Elbert Hubbard

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

Edvard Munch

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

Alan Moore

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.

David Krumholtz

What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season, I got really jaded and I wanted to quit.

Edith Wharton

Some things are best mended by a break.

Bryant H. McGill

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

Brad Pitt

I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.

Janis Joplin

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Charles Bukowski

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

Robert Kiyosaki

You can always quit, so why quit now.

David Jeremiah

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits