Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Alan Bennett

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Akhenaton

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

Akhenaton

Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.

Chinua Achebe

If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.

Chief Seattle

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Chief Joseph

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Ai Weiwei

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Bernard Goldberg

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Charles Grodin

It seems there are no rich on death row.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

Alan Kay

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

Ariel Pink

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

Jeff Pendergraph

We know we can't just be satisfied with this.

Thayer David

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

Brian McKnight

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

Lynn Kimbrough

She wanted everyone to know she's satisfied with (the outcome).

Julius Peppers

Personally, I think I'm doing well. I'm still working on things to get better. I'm not where I want to be. I'll never get where I want to be. But I'm satisfied with where I am so far.