Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

John Greenleaf Whittier

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Ken Blanchard

The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

Kinky Friedman

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

Kinky Friedman

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

Oprah Winfrey

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

Oprah Winfrey

I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.

Oprah Winfrey

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Oliver North

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Margaret Atwood

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?

Margaret Atwood

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

Margaret Atwood

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Margaret Thatcher

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

Lauren Oliver

I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

Lajos Kossuth

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

Patsy Kensit

I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.

Oscar Wilde

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

Oscar Wilde

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Oscar Wilde

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

Madonna Ciccone

Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there.

Madonna Ciccone

I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish.

Lydia M. Child

Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

Luke Zeller

When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.

Lucretius

When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.

Louis Farrakhan

You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."

Margaret Sanger

As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

Michael Jackson

My heart and prayers go out to every individual

Michael Jackson

I just want to say to fans in every corner of the earth, every nationality, every race, every language: I love you from the bottom of my heart. I would love your prayers and your goodwill, and please be patient and be with me and believe in me because I am completely, completely innocent. But please know a lot of conspiracy is going on as we speak.

Michael Jackson

I am here in spirit with you and you are in my prayers. Remember God is with you, and have faith in the fact that this too shall pass.

Michael Crichton

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Mary Baker Eddy

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.