Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

William Butler Yeats

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

Rumi

With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.

Denis Healey

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

Noel Coward

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

Richard Rogers

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

Wilma Rudolph

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Confucius

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

Confucius

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

Franklin Graham

We can all humbly say in the sincerity of faith, "I am loved; I am called; I am secure."

Lord Chesterfield

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

John F. Kennedy

Sincerity is always subject to proof.

Leo Tolstoy

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

John Lancaster Spalding

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.