Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

David Eagleman

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

Anna Quindlen

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

Marya Hornbacher

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Richelle Mead

I'm really not good with impulse control.

Alanis Morissette

That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

Chloe Sevigny

I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

Dave Barry

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

Bryan Fuller

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

L. Ron Hubbard

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

Bill Rancic

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

Edward Gorey

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

Arthur Rubinstein

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

Antonin Artaud

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.