FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

It pure joy, my brothers and sisters,a whenever you face trials of many kinds,f 3because you know that the testing of your faithg produces perseverance.h 4Let perseverance finish its work ... (Anonymous)

Thomas Jefferson had rather serious concerns about the fate of the democratic experiment.28 He feared the rise of a new form of absolutism that was more ominous than the British ... (Noam Chomsky)

I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives. Their motive is the attainment of inner peace ... (Peace Pilgrim)

While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get ... (Dylan Lauren)

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. ... (Peter Jackson)

Yet as she tells the story, the change came about when that director stopped treating her like an antagonist and treated her like a person. He apologized for publicly calling ... (Philip Yancey)

His blue eyes brightened with a smile. 'I did.' He looked over his shoulder, as if making sure her mom wasn't looking. The he pulled her against him and kissed ... (C.C. Hunter)

The MIDDLE is messy, but it's also where the MAGIC happens. ... (Brene Brown)

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it ... (Aldo Leopold)

I'm a glutton for coffee Heath Bar crunch ice cream. ... (Josh Duhamel)

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel. ... (Dick Shawn)

Over the years I have come to believe that life is full of unchosen circumstances, that being human has to do with the evolution of our individual consciousness and with ... (Jean Shinoda Bolen)

The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted ... (Ciaran Hinds)

I always prayed the same way at night: "Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I ... (Pamela Taeuffer)

Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side. ... (Ashwin Sanghi)

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan. ... (Henry Petroski)

Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars. ... (John O'Callaghan)

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. ... (Patrick Stewart)

Miz Fitz, If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven. -Hellbound, a Lass Miz Fitz sez: You ... (Pete Hautman)

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails ... (Thomas Merton)

When times get hard, remember Jesus. When tears come, remember Jesus. When fear pitches his tent in your front yard. When death looms, when anger singes, when shame weighs heavily. ... (Max Lucado)

God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness ... (Sunday Adelaja)

I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and verses from hymns, so that they would know them and the ... (Albert Schweitzer)

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ. ... (Charles Spurgeon)

Rashid did not give in. "Look how his hands move on the contols," he told her. "In those worlds left-handedness does not impede him. Amazingly, he is almost ambidextrous." Soraya ... (Salman Rushdie)

She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her ... (Candace Bushnell)

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea. ... (Miguel de Cervantes)

A balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in; that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can ... (Ilana Mercer)

There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy ... (Glenn Greenwald)