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.

Charles Dickens

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.

Charles Dickens

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

Charles Dickens

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.

Charles Dickens

Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.

Charles Dickens

For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

Charles Dickens

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.

Charles Spurgeon

But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

Alanis Morissette

I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

Cliff Politte

We've all been telling a lot of jokes. I guess we'll all get half a (playoff) share and half a ring. We won't be in the team picture.

Denise Roberts

When he got well, I said, 'Well, I guess it's not too late,'

Carlos Asilis

Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.

Dale Stewart

We guess they didn't know that we had that other side, and we wanted to show that.

Larry Brown

We're just young. And I guess this is the process you have to live with.

John Glenn

Yes! A one-word answer. I guess I should just stop there,

Luke Lanno

Three times we wrestled. I guess they were one wrestler better than us.

Christine Clifford

We're ready to move. In hindsight, I guess I should have checked, but that's what we pay a Realtor for.

Joseph Lapid

We let you guess whatever you wish. What we have promised, and we keep the promise: We will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East,

Nick Russo

We want to preserve and protect Mississippi's rich architectural and archaeological heritage as communities restore and rebuild.

David Wong

When we went to them and told them that we want to do a heritage tour of Hong Kong, a lot of them were very skeptical,

Barbra Streisand

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Brian Sandoval

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

Abdus Salam

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Abdus Salam

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Catherine Ponder

When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

Anthony Kennedy

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Alice Temperley

You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Shawn Amos

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

Annalee Newitz

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Scott Greenstein

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Charles Spurgeon

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Ball

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Al Pacino

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

John Catsimatidis

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

Amanda Peet

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

David Johnson

It would be more rooted in my body.

Charles Blake

It strengthens me to be rooted in the word of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

Chloe Sevigny

Most of the models have this thing I call slouchy sexy, not only in the way they dress, but in the way carry themselves. I don't think they would look hot in one of my dresses. They are more into A. Wang. Most of my clothes are nerdy sexy.

Chloe Sevigny

I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.

Chloe Sevigny

I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy.

David Morse

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

Bryan Callen

There are so many hot, sexy women in L.A.

Caroline Dhavernas

Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.

Camille Paglia

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

Caitlin Moran

The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

Brad Cashman

I don't feel as strongly as I did before on that. Basically, I shouldn't have made that comment.

Kate Bush

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.