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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Camille Paglia

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Caitlin Moran

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

Caitlin Moran

Women are feminist by default.

Caitlin Moran

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

Caitlin Moran

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

Caitlin Moran

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Louis C. K.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Beyonce Knowles

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Alexander Hamilton

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Nathan Deal

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

John Stuart Mill

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Thomas Reid

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Stanley Bing

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.