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.

Edith Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Arthur Keith

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Jennifer Crider

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never been a party to an ethics truce and has always said that individual members have the right to file a complaint.

Bob Davis

We're having an ethics session in the first place because of these folks that got in trouble.

Aristotle

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Suzy Buchholtz

We send them all through McDonald's. It's a great place to teach kids the ethics of working. We require them to put half their paycheck in the bank.

Lance Armstrong

The question is not about me but about the process and the ethics,

Aleksandar Hemon

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Charles Spurgeon

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Nicolas Roeg

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Edward Gorey

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Bill McKibben

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.