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.

Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Alan Watts

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

Al Pacino

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

Al Lewis

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

Akio Morita

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

Chris Carter

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

Chris Colfer

Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing.

Charles Scott Sherrington

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex as the scratch-reflex can be termed a reflex of double-sign, for it develops excitatory end-effect and then inhibitory end-effect even during the duration of the exciting stimulus.

Jessica Simpson

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Barbara Kingsolver

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Aristotle

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

Elinor Glyn

The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

S. Jay Olshansky

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

Jeff Bingaman

There are no minimum royalty rates, there are no enforcement provisions, there are no required inspections, there are no limits on the size or duration of leases, no requirement that operation plans be approved,

Baltasar Gracian

Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration

Mike Sullivan

When you get a 5-on-3 in the last minute of the game and a 4-on-3 for that duration in the overtime (3:11), your expectation is to win the hockey game. We didn't do that tonight and that's disappointing.