Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Kevin Yates

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Al Pacino

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

Al Jarreau

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Katie Lee

We are made so that we love first, when we see them painted, things we have passed perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see.

Delrish Moss

We know from looking at the child that her hair's done, she's been fed, she's been well kept, so somebody has cared for her for a long time.

John Ehle

Ultimately, my feelings are that I had an opportunity to meet with some very special individuals at the school district and quite a number of people I (really) cared for.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Thomas Griffith

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.

Timothy Noah

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

Stella Haynes

She would take a ruler and tap you on the head, but she was a great teacher and she loved the students and cared for them. We learned under her.

EeTisha Riddle

Last year we probably wouldn't have cared too much about the (Texas) loss because it was just one of the many we had. We didn't really talk about it too much ... it's a different mind-set this year.

Robb Akey

She was a giving kind of person. You can't say enough about her. She cared about everybody.

Ellen Smith

The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation.

Paul Jensen

unprofessional conduct not related to the quality of patient care.

Leon Cubillas

We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.

Doug Mosier

We're making criminal enterprises look to different means to conduct their business. We see it as a desperation move.

B. F. Skinner

We respect the prerogative of debate organizers to conduct the debate sponsors as they see fit. We would welcome Russ Potts if the organizers wanted to invite him.

Sheriff Norman

We're so fortunate that we can now conduct an investigation into how this thing got going rather than have to explain to the victims' family members why something like this could have happened. I don't know what we would have done if something like this had really happened.

Joshua Bell

So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing.

Ross Perot

Should a person who's the most powerful person in the world conduct his personal life in such a way that would be a poor example to our children?

Howard Friedman

Short-term suspensions for egregious conduct create a serious problem. It sends the wrong message to officers.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Alan Bradley

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Kevin Hallinan

The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Leander Paes

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Mark Ruffalo

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

Robert Walzel

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.

Jonathan Meyers

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with himself and everyone he works with.

Dick Cheney

Tom Ridge is not a candidate, because he took himself out, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Italo Calvino

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, the Lord Himself is the Appraiser, who distinguishes the counterfeit from the genuine.

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Milton Smith

Some may have ties to Lawrence County, but most have not.

Garry Donna

Lawrence North is a very special team. They have chemistry, no problems and just play. In our lifetime there'll be nothing like this (again).

Tony Banks

The Lawrence that is written about is not the Lawrence I know.

Lino Spiteri

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi prefers smelling roses than removing thorns

David Davies

We had the players and were able to use those to the max - Lawrence Dallaglio, Martin Johnson, Jonny Wilkinson - to market the sport,

Mike Metcalf

I never thought I'd ever go to a Lawrence road game.

Eric Maskin

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Felix Rohatyn

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

Kenneth Langone

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

Octavio Paz

Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

Sean Carroll

The mechanisms that make the small differences between species are the same ones that make the big differences between kingdoms,

Paskah Suzetta

The mechanism is still the same in 2006 but in 2007 we will replace (cash subsidy) with a conditional subsidy and we will allocate some Rp4 trillion.

John Robertson

The mechanism is relating the wrong things. The scarcity problem is not being addressed.

K. V. Thomas

There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

Dick Cavett

I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

Andrew Rannells

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

Dave Heineman

I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

Sam Keller

It comes up because of the circumstances. But it is irrelevant. We're a different team than the '96 team, and USC is a better team than that Nebraska team.

Michigan State

This was a 15-rounder and then some, ... In the end Nebraska made more plays than we did.

Zac Taylor

We showed them that Nebraska is back on the rise.

Mike Johanns

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

Kate Millett

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

Lizz Winstead

Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.

Dorothy L. Sayers

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

Hilary Mantel

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

Paullina Simons

He is just protective over me-” “Not protective, Tania. Consumed.

Orlando Bloom

I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

Thom Berry

We feel like our regulations are protective of the environment.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,