Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight L. Moody

The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.

Dwight L. Moody

When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man fully yielded to Him, and I said I wanted to be that man. But I can say today the world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully yielded to Him.

Dwight L. Moody

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

Dwight L. Moody

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

Dwight L. Moody

Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.

Dwight L. Moody

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Dwight L. Moody

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Dwight L. Moody

I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

Dwight L. Moody

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

Dwight L. Moody

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

Dwight L. Moody

A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it.

Dwight L. Moody

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

Dwight L. Moody

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

Dwight L. Moody

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

Dudley Nichols

My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

Dan Brown

In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.

Dan Brown

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Dan Brown

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

Dan Brown

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Dan Brown

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

Dan Brown

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

David Frum

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

David Foster Wallace

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

David Foster Wallace

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

David Foster Wallace

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.

David Foster Wallace

So yo then man what's your story?

David Foster Wallace

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

David Bach

When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.

David Attenborough

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

David Attenborough

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

Dashiell Hammett

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

Dashiell Hammett

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

Dashiell Hammett

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...