Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Charlotte Bronte

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Jermaine Dupri

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

George Will

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

Philip Yancey

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Tom Brokaw

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.

L. Ron Hubbard

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

David Sedaris

I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.

Carl Sagan

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Jane Austen

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

Alan Bradley

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Charles Baudelaire

The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

Kurt Vonnegut

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

Bruce Catton

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Babe Ruth

I'm only going one way.