Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

William Wilberforce

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

William Wilberforce

And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?.

William Wilberforce

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

Allan Carr

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

Allan Carr

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

William Howard Taft

Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

Antoni Gaudi

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

Antoni Gaudi

But man does not create...he discovers.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Anton LaVey

Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.

Anton LaVey

A Satanist practices the motto, If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other! Let no wrong go unredressed.

Anton LaVey

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

Anton LaVey

I've always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I'm too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can't a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it's a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.

Anton LaVey

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

Anton LaVey

There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!

We have to be able to take the big men out of the game. But I think the problem was we played at Columbia's tempo.

We made the plays down the stretch. I thought it was the most mentally tough we played down the stretch all year.

Kel Mitchell

Mystery Men you can take grandma, you can take everyone to see this film.

Brian Jones

He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.

I already have plans, Stephen, ... but thanks for the offer. Are you sure you have time for pizza, Mark? I thought you mentioned a project you had to work on tonight.

I actually had a 17-pitch at-bat one time. The problem with long at-bats is that you typically miss pitches you should have hit, so you can't get into a mental game.

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

I was taken off-guard by our start. I thought our team was prepared mentally and emotionally. As much as they spread the field, there's a lot of running room. Even if you play perfectly.

I was surprised that he played. He's a strong kid, mentally and physically.

I was shocked. I didn't know anything about the cyst. He never mentioned it and I never really noticed it.