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.

Alan Greenspan

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Al Pacino

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

Ed Belfour

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

Baroness Orczy

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius.

Brigitte Bardot

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

Dominic Monaghan

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Andy Kindler

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.