Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

David Thewlis

The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

Byron Katie

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Bruce Wilkinson

If people are not sharing their faith in your church, if they're not having a quiet time, if they're not living godly lives, then you need to change your style of preaching. You are obviously not seeing lives changed through the Word of God. So what is the problem? The problem isn't the Word. The problem is your preaching style.

Mark Cuban

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

Mark Cuban

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

Ben Vereen

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

bell hooks

...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Charles Kuralt

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Albert Camus

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Albert Camus

This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.

Jean-Paul Sartre

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothingness haunts Being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Friedrich Nietzsche

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.