Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Charles Spurgeon

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles R. Swindoll

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

Dennis Rodman

I don't trust what this life has given me.

Demosthenes

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Demosthenes

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

Democritus

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Elbert Hubbard

The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

Chris Duhon

If only we had an answer. Trust me, we don't know.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

Eleanor Porter

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.