Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

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.

Donald Pleasence

Ultimately, Halloween II was a little too violent for my tastes. It didn't have the intelligent quality and bloodless suspense of the original.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

Dick Armey

I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'.

Nicholas Kristof

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

Thomas Mallon

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.

Robert Sternberg

Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

Carolyn Bricklemyer

She's a wonderful mother and role model through her faith and civic involvement and a very special grandmother. She has five grandchildren, and each of them think they're her favorite.

Marta Tienda

Significant educational investments will not only foster improvements in their health status, civic engagement and economic productivity, but also contribute to U.S. prosperity.

E. O. Wilson

She just embodied the generation of civic duty. Her zeal and passion never stopped. This isn't like a phase she grew out of.

Paul Lee

Hattiesburg has grown to support this civic chorus.

I don't want our kids playing the scoreboard because, quite frankly, we won't always be here at the Civic Center. In the second half we matched baskets and we won by five. I don't think we should do that. We should take more pride in what we're doing.

Lucio Gutierrez

I renounce (asylum) for political, civic and patriotic reasons to return immediately to Ecuador and retake power,

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

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So leave them plunging into false discourses and sporting until they meet their day which they are threatened with.

Richard Feigen

She isn't hiding in her bunker, and she isn't going out in some sort of false exuberance,

Carlos Rodriguez

I did not come here to give you false hopes, ... But Ill tell you this: Were going to rebuilt St. Bernard.

Tom Malinowski

is a wonderful way of getting false concessions out of innocent people. It is a terrible way of getting the truth out of guilty people.

Mike Eaves

I don't want earplugs in their ears. I want them to relish that. Because unless you relish it, having earplugs is a false way to play. You've got to be able to play at a higher level, and I don't think earplugs are going to do any good. I want earplugs out. I want our guys turning the volume up.

Jim Jeffords

give the American people a false, false sense of security.

Rep. Holliman

If it's people bundling money and putting false names on it, very well the speaker might not have any knowledge in that. I just don't know what to make it of it until I know what's there.

Doug Eames

We make sure our plans say we can do what we want to do and not have false expectations. Therefore there is not missed opportunities.

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

Richard Grimes

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

Crystal Robinson

Man, that championship ring is what we play for,

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

will.i.am

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

Emanuel Steward

We get into the ring and we say, 'Welcome to big time boxing,'

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Tiffany Jackson

Sometimes our doorbell will ring at 1 in the morning.

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

Joseph Joubert

Slander is the solace of malignity.

Hebrew Proverb

Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of

Nicolas Chamfort

Slander is the balm of malignity.