Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Fry

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

Christian Louboutin

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

Francis Bacon

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francesca Lia Block

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

Forest Whitaker

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

George Washington Carver

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

George Washington Carver

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

George Washington

[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply every human defect; that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good.

George Santayana

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

God knows what is in me in place of me.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If God is dead, everything is allowed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

Franz Beckenbauer

We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.

Jeanette Winterson

I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.

Jeanette Winterson

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

Jeanette Winterson

The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

Jim Clyburn

In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial

I think I did enough to make it. I think I made it as hard as possible for them to cut me by showing them what I can do. I think it's going to come down to numbers. I'm just going to wait, pray and hope it's God's will that I'm going to be on the Eagles. My first goal was to make this squad but if not, hopefully another team saw what I did and will want me.

Jeremy Taylor

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

Jeremy Taylor

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

Jeremy Taylor

God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.

George Eliot

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

George Eliot

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Christina Rossetti

Heaven is the presence of God.

Christina Rossetti

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

George W. Bush

Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

George W. Bush

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

George W. Bush

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.