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.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Michael Steele

My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Jim Calhoun

The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.

Paul Woods

The potential is there and with a bit of luck we could finish in the top four. There are two or three programs that are traditionally strong and the final one or two spots are usually up for grabs.

Mark Zandi

The potential for even higher energy prices is a risk to the economic outlook. The economy has digested the higher prices gracefully so far. But it can get a bit of indigestion if prices move higher.

Pat Sullivan

The people who were here tonight now have an idea of the talent you see at the NAIA National Tournament. This team is every bit as talented as what you see at the nationals. In fact, if this had been 20 years ago when the NAIA had 600 teams, this team could have won it.

Winifred Creamer

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

Mike Hathaway

We've always been a little bit wide open anyway, but with Chris out, it kind of forced us to throw more.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

John Clare

We are pleased with the progress of our international operations, whilst we remain cautious about prospects in the UK, where we have experienced the slowdown in consumer expenditure.

Michael Morpurgo

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

Richard Kogan

What they've done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious ... but they haven't put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty, ... It's so large that we can't know if the problem is twice as great or a quarter as great as what they're saying.

Buddy Bell

We're hoping our starters give us more innings. All indications are they will. We want to be cautious with our bullpen.

Jason Richardson

Oh, we were stressed going into training camp, not knowing what's going on, being cautious on the floor, making sure you're not getting hurt,

John Stewart

There is cautious optimism that things are going to work out in a favorable light,

Mark McKechnie

September will be challenging for handset makers. We are generally cautious on the group.

Donna May

She was very cautious about locking her door and not letting people into her home that she didn't know.

Andrew To

Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate fears.

Steve Holloway

She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We have demanded a lot of her as far as being a leader, and she has taken this team on her back.

D. James

To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

Liana Liberato

Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a comedy, but that opportunity really hasn't opened up.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Jim Zorn

He could have lashed out or just gone in the tank or been so frustrated and demanded a trade. That's not how Matt reacted.

Peter Riegert

It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.

Kasan Mulyono

Residents only demanded a larger quota of local workers, and we have met that.

Pedro Medina

The suspect demanded to know the location of the vault and demanded the manager open the vault,

Gary Johnson

The other two saw what was going on and grabbed the hostage, the store owner who was the only person in the store at the time, and held him at gunpoint,

Dan Wheldon

When you think Danica grabbed the headlines, you wait until he starts. She'll be jealous of him.

John Irvine

She grabbed our daughter, and I looked frantically for my 5-year-old son, ... He was looking out to sea. He was mesmerized, hypnotized by the wall of water.

Kendra Davis

Maybe (Axelrod) thought I was going to slap him, because he knows that's the kind of language you get slapped for. And he grabbed my wrist.

Lance Briggs

I had outside leverage as the fullback went to the flat. I didn't think he was going to throw it. He threw it and I went and grabbed it and scored.

Victor Penman

(He) walked over to this thing, grabbed it with his thumb and forefinger, and lifted it off the table. The place just erupted.

Tim Smith

I threw (the minivan) into park and ran after him and grabbed him.

Nate Robinson

He was under me, and I was trying to fall. So, when I grabbed his arm, I was trying to push him out of the way.

Roxy Harshbarger

He went to the pet store and a cockatiel grabbed his nose.

Al Alvarez

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

David Sedaris

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

Beyonce Knowles

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Beyonce Knowles

I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

Diego Boneta

Before every performance I feel nervous.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself.

Shawn Chacon

When I was on the mound, I was pretty relaxed. I was focused. I don't know what it is, but I'm more nervous before I pitch and then after I come out of the game. When I'm in there, I don't feel any of that.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.

Daryl Hall

Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Ken Starr

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Patricia Clarkson

She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here,

Ken King

We're activating relationships that otherwise wouldn't have been there.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Susan Minot

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Donna Griffin

We are trying to sustain or make more improvement.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.

Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

Al Hirt

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

China Chow

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

Dave Franco

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

David Krumholtz

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Dave Barry

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Dave Barry

Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Richard Holbrooke

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Topher Grace

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

Obie Trice

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

Earl Butz

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.