Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.

Charles Caleb Colton

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Charles Stanley

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

Al Ries

To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.

Al Sharpton

It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

Akira Kurosawa

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

Chogyam Trungpa

meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

Camille Paglia

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Lord Byron

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

Audrey Hepburn

Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

C. S. Lewis

Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Charles Francis Richter

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

Alan Ball

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Darren Shan

Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.

David Sedaris

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Catherine Deneuve

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Camille Paglia

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

Deborah Harkness

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Bill Nighy

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

Charlaine Harris

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

Charlaine Harris

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.