Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Bede Griffiths

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

B. B. King

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...

Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Bill Shorten

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

Bill Cowher

It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.

Bill Cosby

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

C. S. Lewis

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

C. S. Lewis

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

Bill Shankly

First is first,Second is nothing

C. S. Lewis

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Cecil Rhodes

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

Carl Orff

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Antonia Fraser

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

Bill Vaughan

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Robert Mitchell

I think it smells good, like rising bread, but some don't like it,

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

Ludwig von Mises

Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Bonnie Raitt

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.