Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Alexander the Great

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Charles Kennedy

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

Charles R. Swindoll

God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Jim Scott

She was very godly and just opened her heart to everybody.

Dean Stanley

God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

John Powell

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Robert Lopez

My god, I wanted to go in there and smash that window and try and see if I could pull her out. But the flames were too high. It's gone.

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

Abdu'l Baha

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

Randy Adams

I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw flames from the back of my truck,

Christine Feehan

She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

Kevin Taylor

Those flames are sky-high. This is really scary.

Alexander Pushkin

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Charles de Gaulle

Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.

Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.