Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Aimee Mann

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Anne Mills

Our reading is that their aim is not to begin a tightening cycle but to reinstate a normal monetary policy.

Bertrand Russell

Organizations are of two kinds, those which aim at getting something done, and those which aim at preventing something from being done

Shukla Bose

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

Tameko Smith

PAWS is a ministry with one aim in mind, to minister to the hearing impaired and to those who can hear. Our destiny is heaven.

Mark Shapiro

Our margins need to be better. Bottom line. Now that we're aiming for the families, we should be dipping into a whole other pool that we've never seen before.

Peter Struck

Our main aim must be, on the one hand to allow inspectors to go in without conditions, and on the other hand to avoid war,

Omar Abdullah

Our only aim is to see the state out of the current painful and precarious situation.

Samuel Berger

Our nations will always have differences in important areas. But if we aim for common ground, then both of us can win.

Mbhazima Shilowa

Our primary aim is to change the lives of our people for the better by beautifying our townships. We need to provide decent schools, clinics, sports and recreational facilities. In particular, we need to ensure that by 2009 all roads in the townships are tarred.

Monica Johnson

Jesus sowed good seeds into the lives of the people He touched. His walk was humble, meek, giving, and forgiving, and He taught His disciples to be the same way.

Bible Bible

But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

Elaine Pagels

The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel.

E. B. White

What would Jesus drive? A Tahoe so he could get up to eight of his disciples inside and tow the rest in a trailer behind.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

John Strachan

Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

Bible Bible

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

Hindu Proverb

Saints fly only in the eyes of their disciples

Robert Anton Wilson

A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.