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.

Michael Huyghue

We're looking at our options for putting an expansion team in St. Louis. We've met with Major League Soccer, had a feasibility study and made other inroads. At this point, we're very serious about it, but it's still in the planning stage and we're not ready to make an official announcement.

Carol Hively

Maine is one of the few states where we don't have a presence. Opening stores in Maine is part of our overall expansion plan. We are focused on growing in the U.S.

Brian Schmidt

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

Iris Chang

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

Richard Davis

We're long on talent and short on experience, as many expansion teams are. We're gonna play hard and these guys play to my style because they're tough. They're gonna hit you in the mouth.

Nancy Pelosi

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Lawrence Summers

We are mindful that we must not take our expansion for granted.

Mo Ibrahim

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Yasser Arafat

No one single house to be added. Not any expansion to any settlement,

Alan Paton

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

Derek Jeter

We've won it before, and anything short of that is failure. You don't work the whole off-season, spring training and six months of games to finish second or third. If you don't win, you should feel it's a failure.

Corby Maurer

We've already talked about that and they're OK with that. I want them to hear that from me and let them know I'm going to finish what I started. Hopefully that'll mean we're running track into May.

Carlos Rodriguez

We started together, and we are going to finish together.

Jeff Tageant

We started out kind of slow but we finished strong.

David Duchovny

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

Chester Brown

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

Nia Long

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

Sandy Julian

When I was in office, as a trustee and mayor, there were projects that were not finished. I just feel like I didn't finish what I started.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

Erik Estrada

National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that.

Paul Harris

Money talks. They're targeting the spending in the industries and geographic constituencies that really matter.

Robert Martinez

We visited many temples and interviewed leaders. We took information from there and from the Internet and put it all together, taking into consideration the geographic area.

Sean Sweeney

Some of our soccer has been a negative surprise for us, because there is so much geographic blocking.

Joe Mansueto

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

Adrian McKinty

Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.

Hank Smith

It's had a very, very rapid geographic range expansion.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Alan Moore

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Buddy Rice

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Jeffrey Skilling

The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.

William Shakespeare

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

Love reasons without reason.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Jared Leto

We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Stephen Graham Jones

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it. I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it, ... I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Alexandra Adornetto

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.