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.

Edgar Wright

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Andy Warhol

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

Don DeLillo

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Calista Flockhart

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

Chris Wedge

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Francine Pascal

I always had a fascination with twins.

Fredric Jameson

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

Joshua Lederberg

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Paul Bettany

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

Carl Sagan

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Judit Molnar

We are presenting the emptiness and mourning the Holocaust left behind.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

Kat Morgan

Only within the word love truth enters. Within emptiness you become pregnant with what you are searching for.

James Marsh

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

Alan Dean Foster

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

Chris Hadfield

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Bertrand Russell

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.