Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Charles Spurgeon

The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly.

Charles Spurgeon

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

Charles Spurgeon

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Alan Watts

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Alan Moore

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Alan Chambers

My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Lydia Leonard

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Carolyn Wells

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Gary Payton

We're going to have to play freely and open.

Thorne Smith

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

Bill Scannell

Never before in the history of our nation has government permission been required to travel freely in our country. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. It's just plain wrong.

John Milton

Freely we serve / Because we freely love, as in our will / To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

Jean Giraudoux

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Bruno Cullen

Most of the players we're talking to now, we're talking to freely with the knowledge that Shane could stay or go.

Jane Walsh

Just because you work in one of the hottest restaurants in town does not give you the right to freely dispense the attitude.

Natalie Massenet

Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.

Elfriede Jelinek

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Dave Roberts

Richard will be riding for Mr Pipe, that is correct.

Gerd Langguth

Mrs Merkel has always been underestimated. She has an uncompromising will to succeed. She always seems to know what to do next and then get on with it.

Jane Austen

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

Jane Austen

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

Jane Austen

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Jane Austen

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Bruno Tonioli

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Beatrice Lillie

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

David Graeber

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Carlos Slim

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Pam Shoemaker

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

Jeffrey Passel

The picture we get is that of young, working families.

Jonathan Crisp

The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid.

Gene Scott

The picture is important because it tends to verify what he was saying about what happened.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

Randy Carlyle

We were able to ride it all the way in. Not picture perfect, but effective.

Taissa Farmiga

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

Christopher Dixon

One picture is not going to make a significant difference.

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Yeardley Smith

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

Pete Carroll

He shocks me every day with something. He's done some things, remarkable things, with the ball.

Gilbert Metcalf

He made a bet. I think he was successful. That was a remarkable achievement.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Carl Icahn

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Billy Joe Saunders

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Edward Gibbon

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Mark Epstein

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.