Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

Charles Caleb Colton

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.

Charles Caleb Colton

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Spurgeon

He who fears God has nothing else to fear.

Alan Paton

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A scared world needs a fearless church.

Chogyam Trungpa

We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

Chogyam Trungpa

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

Chin-Ning Chu

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

Chinua Achebe

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Willie Wells

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

Albert Einstein

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Charles Spurgeon

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

Chinua Achebe

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

William Shakespeare

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

August Wilson

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

C. S. Lewis

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

William Shakespeare

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

William Shakespeare

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

Charles Spurgeon

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

African Proverbs

We should talk while we are still alive. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.