Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Denis Johnson

I knew every raindrop by its name.

Debra Messing

I am a fan of all of the same shows that David just listed. And then I also have a weird obsession with Court TV, which is now truTV - I don't know if you know that. Yeah they changed names. I don't know why they did that but they did. It was a little disconcerting to me at first. But I've gotten over it.

Dieter Rams

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

Eduard Buchner

If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

Ben Jonson

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Basil Bunting

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Eddie Van Halen

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Margaret Thatcher

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Tim Pape

Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.

Terry Pratchett

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Mark Levin

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Diane Lane

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Deana Carter

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

Earl Nightingale

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

Elizabeth Drew

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

Elfriede Jelinek

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Deepak Chopra

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.