Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Charles R. Swindoll

Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

Demosthenes

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Chris Cornell

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

Charles Spurgeon

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

Dennis Wilson

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

Dennis Ritchie

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,

Dennis Eckersley

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches

Denholm Elliott

When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.

Edgar Allan Poe

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

Eleanor Roosevelt

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.