Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Carl Sagan

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Camille Paglia

The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

Catherynne M. Valente

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Bill Johnson

The best way to prepare yourself for your own miracle is to rejoice in somebody else's.

Bill Johnson

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

Alan Ball

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Darren Shan

Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.

David Sedaris

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Catherine Deneuve

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Camille Paglia

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

Deborah Harkness

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Bill Nighy

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

Charlaine Harris

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

Charlaine Harris

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

Alan Watts

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Chris Bosh

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Bill Kirby

Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Bill Walsh

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Ariel Winter

I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

Anthony Trollope

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.