Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Ann Voskamp

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

Barry Lopez

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

John Steinbeck

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

John Steinbeck

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

John Steinbeck

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Marie Lu

When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

Matthew Simpson

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Bill Ryan

We're inches away from getting (the leases) completed.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Aaron Nida

She's only about 41/2 inches from the automatic.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Mark Ewens

We had 5.1 inches of snow here, with 0.53 inch of precipitation.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Harry Stockman

Traveling will be very slippery and treacherous. We could have 3 to 6 inches of snow by the end of Friday.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.