Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Charles Spurgeon

Suffering saints are living seed.

Charles Spurgeon

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Alan Watts

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Alan Watts

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Chin-Ning Chu

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

William Shakespeare

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

William Shakespeare

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

Edith Wharton

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.

Elizabeth I

I will have but one mistress and no master

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Ben Jonson

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Jane Austen

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Barry Goldwater

Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Gene Nelson

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.

J. A. Konrath

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Boris Diodorov

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

John Updike

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

Ricky Jay

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

P. C. Cast

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

Barbara Bradford

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.