Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacqueline Novogratz

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Jacqueline Novogratz

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

Jacqueline Novogratz

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

Jacqueline Novogratz

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The time for change is now.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

Jacqueline Novogratz

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

Jacqueline Novogratz

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are loaded pistols.

Francis Chan

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

Francis Chan

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

Francis Chan

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

Francis Chan

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

Francis Chan

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

Francis Chan

A disciple is a disciple maker.

Francis Chan

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

Julian Barnes

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

Gavin Newsom

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Lizz Winstead

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

Marilyn Monroe

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

Paul Scheuring

Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

Hans Kung

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.