Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Charles Spurgeon

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape

Charles Spurgeon

Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

Alan Watts

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

Al Pacino

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

Dave Barry

But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land." (Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)

Dave Barry

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

David Suzuki

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

David R. Brower

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

William Shakespeare

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

William Shakespeare

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

Edith Wharton

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.

Elizabeth I

I will have but one mistress and no master

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Ben Jonson

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Jane Austen

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Barry Goldwater

Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Demetri Martin

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

Albert Pike

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

Albert Einstein

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

Marianne Williamson

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

Elizabeth Goudge

Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

C. S. Lewis

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,