Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

Aiden Wilson Tozer

This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.

Chris Avellone

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Darren Shan

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

Byron Katie

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

Carter G. Woodson

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

Camille Paglia

It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.

C. J. Cherryh

Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

Bryan Davis

Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.

Cecilia Bartoli

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Charles Osgood

The dimensions of the radio are truly to be treasured.

Bob Watters

Since 9/11, (security) has taken on new dimensions that they didn't have before. There are many different layers of security in the process.

Brian Greene

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

Tom Brokaw

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

Eckhart Tolle

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

Eckhart Tolle

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Albert Camus

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Douglas Adams

These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.