Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Dickens

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Charles Dickens

Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

Charles Spurgeon

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.

Chris Cleave

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

China Mieville

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

David Miliband

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

Cesare Pavese

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Bob McDonnell

I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.

Bode Miller

I've been myself my whole life.

Brad Garrett

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Alexander Pushkin

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

Andy Dick

I believed in God my whole life.

Ann Patchett

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

Magic Johnson

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.

Dennis Lehane

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Jen Lancaster

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.

Amos Lee

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

Napoleon Hill

We become who we hang out with.

Christina Milian

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously

Frances Bean Cobain

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

Kiernan Shipka

I do lots of activities. I hang out with friends.

Greg Fitzsimmons

The best drunks are the ones who only hang out with other drunks in places we all know are filled with drunks.

Lady Gaga

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.