Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth. Mr. Rochester: Because you delight in sacrifice. Jane: Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value-to press my lips to what I love-to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I delight in sacrifice.

Charlotte Bronte

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Charles Caleb Colton

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Charles Studd

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Charles Stanley

[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

Charles Stanley

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

Charles Stanley

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Charles Stanley

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Charles Stanley

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Agnes Varda

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

Al Pacino

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Mitchell Baker

There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.

Eckhart Tolle

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.

Ben Okri

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

Lea Thompson

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.

Caity Lotz

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

Twyla Tharp

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

Twyla Tharp

When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

Charles de Gaulle

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Lint

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Kevin Everly

We use them in different combinations to get each other the ball. They work together and do a lot of screening.

Brian Eno

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Graeber

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

Catherine Deneuve

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.