Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Charles Spurgeon

In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission.

Charles Spurgeon

Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

Alan Ball

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb.

Chief Seattle

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Darren Shan

I sucked blood from one of my best friends

David Satcher

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak

Cesare Pavese

I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.

Ron Hays

The people you are helping are your neighbors, friends, relatives -- maybe even your co-workers.

JoLaine Jones

We were totally just friends. I had no idea he was romantically interested in me.

Doug Campbell

We've always wanted to see what it was like and visit some friends here. It's a lot of fun, and luckily the weather has been great.

Jose Reyes

We're just good friends. We joke around here in the clubhouse, but if we see each other outside, we're friends. We joke, try to have fun.

Jennifer Davis

We're friends first, and I think that's what makes it work.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Vivian Stringer

She and I are personal friends, but as it relates to the game itself, she can see like I can see. She can tell what our strengths and weaknesses are just like I can with them, but I'm not necessarily worried about that. We just have to go out and play.

John Jamison

Mike is a guy who trusts his friends.

Kristin Steele

She's one of the most phenomenal people out there. She's very true to herself and to her friends. She's just that down-home kid.

Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Dickens

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Spurgeon

Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Rick Pitino

We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home,

Seamus Mallon

We are getting near to the stage where hardball will be played.

Richard Peddie

We're getting near the end of the process, but obviously it is not over yet,

James Williams

Yes, he was standing near the trash can.

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Mike Irwin

Sheldon Park is a little too popular with the geese. KES isn't near water so we don't have the same problem and it seems to work out better for everyone.

George Hecht

We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Charles Scott Sherrington

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Daniel D. Palmer

Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

Alexander Payne

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Charles Spurgeon

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Beth Moore

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

Edna Ferber

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

Billy Corgan

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Brendan Fraser

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

Brandon Sanderson

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

Abraham Verghese

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Anita Desai

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.