Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Charles Spurgeon

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

Charles Portis

Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Olson

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Diane Keaton

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

Dennis Prager

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

Denis Diderot

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Edgar Allan Poe

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

Edgar Allan Poe

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Albert Schweitzer

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Curtis Sanford

Like Dougie (Weight) says, it's learning to win again. It's doing the little things that it takes to win, tonight was a prime example of that. The last two games were good examples of a lot of the leadership and a lot of the character in the room.

Michael Shea

Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing,

Rocky Gibson

Luke's number will be called in situations like that. He showed a lot of character to drive the length of the floor and score.

George Lois

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

Phil Jackson

Looks like that's the character of what we have right now.

Stephnie Weir

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Guy Ritchie

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Dennis Kucinich

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Ban Ki-moon

I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Anthony Romero

President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.