Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

Bill Cosby

It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.

C. S. Lewis

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Benjamin Rush

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion...

Benjamin Rush

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

Benjamin Rush

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

Benjamin Rush

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

John Piper

The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy.

Kelly Quinn

I watch him every Saturday on TV, and I get so nervous for him, ... He calls me before and after games to see how I do and to wish me luck. We both pray for each other and send each other Bible verses.

J. Taylor

Jerry sees things that I see. He calms the team down. With all the intangible things he brings, we're a much better team now that we've got him back.

Mark Noe

It calms me down seeing E.J. there. But I think it would have made me a little calmer if he had won it at 5-2. But I still felt pretty good with him. We knew this was going to be a close match. Center Grove is loaded, but they were tougher than I thought they were.

Ryosuke Terata

For us Japanese, this is extremely frustrating. It is just like putting a crying child into a closet to wait until it calms down.

Ben Brockwell

Unless this market calms down quickly, you're looking at $4 gas.

Brian Billick

He never lost his cool. He knew he had to make certain plays in order for us to keep going. He was everything you'd expect out of a veteran quarterback. He just calms me. His effect on me is calming. He did that for me in 1998, and he's done that here as well. There's always that sense of, 'You know what? We're OK. We're going to be OK.' It's not a lack of urgency by any stretch. It's just a calmness.

Mike Scioscia

He needs a little more time to see if it calms down. We don't want it to get worse. It is structurally sound. There is just some inflammation.

Jim Gresh

She calms us down and leads us in practice. She came up big. She's been around and I expect a lot from her.

Alan Manevitz

Most people who describe the sucking feel that it soothes them, calms them, gives them comfort, focuses them.

Dmitry Medvedev

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.

Sherwood Boehlert

Our voice is being listened to now more than it has in the past.

DJ Paul

Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Clothes, underwear, there is so much going on. Hip-hop is taking over.

George Michael

Please listen to this song. This one is called, 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime,'

Jerry Angelo

We've talked to some teams about players. I'm not going to get into the specific names, but it could be something we'll listen to.

Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Bernadette Peters

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Joe Gibbs

I will say this, we don't listen to him all the time or we'd be out here in our underwear.

Bill Burr

I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.

Geri Federico

That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.