Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. Harvey

Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through my obedience to God.

Mary McAleese

May your acceptance of this tremendous burden of service bear fruit in our world. May God give you strength for these new cares.

Lance Randall

My job is not just a basketball coach. I think that I'm more of a leader and a teacher and I'm trying to make young men out of them. Part of their acceptance or part of their realization of the end is part of maturation process.

Anthony Warrens

One of the attractions of the pig is the widespread acceptance that it is regarded as ethically proper to rear and then kill large numbers of pigs for food.

Sam Dubbin

One must view the government's acceptance of responsibility for the thefts as very important and we hope it will stand as a durable lesson for the future.

Arthur Rubinstein

Of course there is no formila for success except perhaps and unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Rob Holden

No one is giving up, but it is the acceptance that the actual real chances of finding someone alive are almost nil.

Kim McCullough

Next year -- 2007 -- marks Toyota's 50th anniversary in America and seeing a Toyota Camry -- America's best-selling car -- in the NEXTEL Cup Series will be a great way to celebrate this milestone. The response to Toyota's involvement in the Craftsman Truck Series has been very positive, and we look forward to building on that acceptance at the next levels -- in both NEXTEL Cup and Busch racing." ()

Harold Wilson

Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Sir Simon

Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.

Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

Dave Reichert

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.

Isabella Bird

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

Kate Atkinson

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

Rig Veda

Knowledge makes capable of earning knowledge. It inspires us to perform actions and as a result one acquires desired wealth.

Mark Pagel

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Joanna Stevens

There is going to be an enormous integration challenge for any company that acquires AOL.

Burleigh Grimes

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

Bryan Piskorowski

Selling on the news has been the mantra for second-quarter earnings season. What's more has been the bull's inability to piece together any kind of winning streak. With sustainability in question and anxiety abounding about tomorrow's (Thursday's) Employment Cost Index and Friday's second quarter GDP, few players are willing to step up to the plate today.

Steve Alford

Maybe your anxiety and nerves are different. Every year it seems we're on the brink and not knowing how many games we had to win or in '01 knowing we needed to win all of them to get in. It's a different feeling this year. There's the pressure that we think we're a pretty good basketball team and winning one of the two Big Ten championships is out there.

Philip Schultz

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

Atharva Veda

My anxiety is over. The Guru has cut away my bonds, and I have found eternal peace. Whatever shall be, shall be in the end; so where can pain and pleasure be seen?

Atharva Veda

My hunger has departed, my thirst has totally departed, and all my anxiety is forgotten. The Perfect Guru has placed His Hand upon my forehead; conquering my mind, I have conquered the whole world.

Steve Lattizori

Maybe it's Senior Night and (we had) a little anxiety about that. But our conditioning looked (awful Wednesday night), and we've got to do something about that. We've got some work to do before area.

Atharva Veda

NOW, there is a wave of anxiety spreading over the World as a result of rising prices; and attempts are frantically being made to bring down the level.

Piero Fassino

Naturally, there remain all the reasons for concern and anxiety stemming from the first round, and the necessity of the European left to take stock of the fears that pushed so many citizens to turn to the right.

Pat Day

When I got the nod from God to retire, ... it was a closed book. God relieved me of any anxiety.

Richard P. Feynman

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

Mahmoud Abbas

Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.

Sorin Cerin

Man is nothing else than en eternal maker of divinity, where every sentiment he has becomes a possible saint or angel, prophet or demon, depending on the changes that sentiment undergoes.

Tim Whitehead

Like any good goalie, it becomes more difficult to make saves if you take his eyes away on screens and get to the net on second and third shots.

Nicole Holofcener

Like any good actor, Jennifer just becomes this other person.

Stacey Charter

Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.

Christina Sweden

Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.

Paul Carrington

Losing is very contagious. When you fall into a streak like we've done, it becomes very easy for you to just want to go through the motions. Right now, we're not doing that. But I think it's necessary for us to get a victory soon to show ourselves that we can be a successful team. Once we get one, I believe, then more and more wins will come.

Rhea Perlman

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

Khalil Gibran

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.

Don Henley

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Bible Bible

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Mexican Proverb

Love is blind - but not the neighbors

James Graham

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Helen Rowland

Love, like a chicken salad a restaurant has, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Many people living in these neighborhoods suffer. But nothing can excuse such useless, such blind violence like we saw,

Mike Halpert

So it's definitely better than blind luck, but a long way from where we'd like to be.

Robert Brown

One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,/ Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!

Rig Veda

One shall have to undergo suffering to reach truth. That is why it is said that truth is eternally victorious.

Jenna Morasca

My father is undoubtedly one of the nicest, kindest, smartest, and warm-hearted people I know. He is truly a light that shines on this earth, and to know him is to love him. He is also the eternal optimist.

Kylie Minogue

I'm sure that love exists, even infinite, eternal love.

David Green

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

Kelly Clark

I found out there is a lot more joy and hope and eternal things in the world than snowboarding.

Chris Bell

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

Graham Greene

So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear.

William James

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

William James

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

Mallory Ortberg

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

Albert Schweitzer

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Ben Braun

Leon is a smart guy. I have faith in Leon, in his decision-making process.

Sathya Baba

Let the different faiths exist; let them flourish and the glory of God be sung in all the languages and in a variety of tunes.

Ari Fleischer

Scott had the faith and the trust of the president, and that's the most important ingredient.

Missy Elliott

Missy is still going to be Missy. Whatever I get on, it's still me. If I do a record with Madonna or Mariah Carey, even if I did a record with Faith Hill, it's still going to be a Missy record.

Mother Teresa

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Joe Carnahan

My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.

John Edwards

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

Isabella Rossellini

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

Horace Horace

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.

Eric Kriss

made representations to us recently they are planning to modify that license, and we believe, if they do so in the way that we understand that they have spoken about...the next iteration of the Open Format standard will include some Microsoft proprietary formats.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Flavio Briatore

Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008.

Jason Robert Brown

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

Sathya Baba

Love is the form of Brahman (The Supreme Reality)Brahman is love Divine.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Juan Ferrero

My form is getting better day by day and I guess I am ready for my first title this year.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Olindo Mare

Matt was a good buddy. He got hurt, though. I don't think it really mattered, friendship or no friendship. You can't punt when you're hurt. That's why they got Donnie, and Donnie had a good game.

William Butler Yeats

May God be praised for womanThat gives up all her mind,A man may find in no mana friendship of her kind.

Thomas Fuller

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Charles Spurgeon

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Diane Keaton

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Debra Messing

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

Dean Smith

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

Kevin Mitnick

Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.

Thomas p Kempis

Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Tom White

maybe you could have given him a letter of reprimand.

Caitlyn Jenner

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

Rosemary Fox

One mom said if we hadn't given her a laptop, she would have gone insane.

Dannel Malloy

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

Joanne Harris

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

Stephen Marley

Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.

Abdu'l Baha

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

Donald Cargill

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Monica Johnson

Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

Stephen Jay Gould

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Mel Tillis

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

Lord Byron

I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.

Susanna Montezemolo

Luckily from our perspective, this is just a first step. There really is an opportunity for people to get involved in this issue.

Dave Rose

Less than one-half of one percent of our students are involved in assaults.

Gary Wagner

My job is to talk with people and find out what programs they should be involved with.

Sevyn Streeter

My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.

Sean Collins

Obviously we knew we were going to be playing a lot so we had to keep our shifts short. It's tough to jump up into a play and get involved in the offense because you just can't expend too much energy.

Lisa Nash

online investors?are very involved in the markets. They're always watching for the news, watching for updates.

Zach Pollakoff

Music is one of my passions. If I'm not making music, I want to be involved in it in some way.

Diane Siri

Now that I've made this decision, I'll look for ways to stay involved in education.

Neale Godfrey

Get them involved in how money is spent in real life.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Archibald Hill

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

Craig Ray

Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.

Jake Bugg

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

David Givens

I was surprised to win, I thought for sure someone else would have a longer commute.

Michael Vick

I would have been able to come back and play ... With an injury, the longer you sit on the sideline and kind of nurse it a little bit, the stiffer you get. Once I got stiff, there was no need to go back in.

Seth Harp

I have always said when people first marry there is a whole lot of lust and not a whole lot of understanding. The longer you are married the more you understand each other.

Henry Rollins

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Bill Rodgers

So, I would recommend one longer run daily, with your longest run when you can get the time.

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Charles R. Swindoll

...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.

Charles R. Swindoll

In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun.

Debra Messing

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.

Debra Messing

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.

Dieter Rams

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Eileen Atkins

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.

Elinor Ostrom

Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.

Elena Kagan

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

Deepak Chopra

In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

Don DeLillo

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

William Shakespeare

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

Gerald Schatten

Neither (the) results, nor we, support pet cloning.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Nancy Cartwright

I have neither been there nor done that

Michael McCabe

ICraveTV.com isn't playing by the rules. They have neither sought nor obtained permission to use our signals.

Judi Larkin

One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern part of the country, we struggle with our weather.

Steve MacFarlane

Obviously, we would have like their support. Once Northwest is done with us they're going to go after them.

Chad Myers

One way or another there are going to be pounding waves on the northeast coast.

Timothy Noah

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Eddie Van Halen

I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.

Dave Ramsey

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

Somawansa Amerasinghe

Only three parties know what is in it - the President, the LTTE and the Norwegian embassy.

John Benjamin Hickey

I was shooting the third season of 'The Big C' and doing 'The Normal Heart' at the same time on Broadway, and I thought, 'I'll never do anything as difficult as this.'

Tom Rath

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

Henry Bonilla

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

Sylvia Browne

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

Sabas Pretelt

We can't wait until it occurs before taking action,

Don Stewart

This kind of thing occurs from time to time in a correctional setting.

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

Mike Eggl

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Deepak Chopra

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

David Nail

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

Mark Cuban

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

Bridgit Mendler

I'm really passionate about music.

Bruce Hornsby

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Kris Benson

He was very passionate about anything that he did.

George Magliano

We think the Scion is a phenomenon unto itself.

Drake Johnstone

This tracking stock phenomenon doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down to $0.

Edgar Mitchell

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

Ted Smith

This convergence phenomenon is very real, and it's getting more real.

Steve Bonney

A phenomenon has happened. We've tapped into the trucker network.

Jack Fultz

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

Craig Fugate

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

Jonathan Sacks

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

John Travolta

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

Elbert Hubbard

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Austin O'Malley

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

Karl Barth

Faith is never identical with piety.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Michael Friedman

One of the things sacrificed is the scientific expertise,

Charles Spurgeon

Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.

Dean Koontz

The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

Ed Pastor

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Edward Halifax

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Granth Sahib

One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.

Chris Evert

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.