Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Edwards

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

Jonathan Ames

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

Edward Coke

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

Herman Wouk

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

John Hagee

How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

Joe Harris

After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go up on the Eiffel Tower and gaze down upon the city of Paris, which he'd conquered. For some reason the elevators mysteriously stopped working that day. Some people say it might have had to do with the French resistance. So he couldn't go up.

Joan Rivers

What I love about jewelry is you can change it for something else without surgery.

Joan Rivers

I like colonic irrigation because sometimes you find old jewelry.

The jewel that Federated would want is the Marshall Field's flagship State Street store in Chicago.

The jewel of spiritual wisdom was placed within the universe.

The jewel of spiritual wisdom has been taken away from everyone; nothing can withstand it.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.

Ellen Pompeo

I’m the Renee Zellweger now. Jewel is the me now. There is no more Jewel.

Karen Mills

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

Kate Reardon

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

Lionel Blue

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

Lionel Blue

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

Khalil Gibran

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

Philippa Gregory

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

Thomas Traherne

Souls are God's jewels.

Rumi

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.

Romain Gary

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

Shunryu Suzuki

So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

Heinrich Heine

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

John Dryden

An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.

Rabindranath Tagore

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

Monica Crowley

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

Pearl S. Buck

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

Pearl S. Buck

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.