FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. ... (Jerry Bridges)

Daily walk promotes good health. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the ... (Tony Abbott)

Listen. I will lose myself if it means I can find you. ... (Alaska Gold)

You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. ... (Ray Bradbury)

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk ... (Jostein Gaarder)

A promise is something that has been given but not yet realized. ... (Todd Stocker)

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ. ... (Pope Benedict XVI)

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore. ... (Bryan Lee O'Malley)

If we could see the fullness of our tomorrows, how many of us would take desperate action to change the future? What if our far seeing showed us the loss ... (Kathleen Kent)

Blast it! Where is that letter?" Sophia pulled it from her pocket. "I have it here." Sir Reginald's voice lifted with amazament. "You took that from me? When we were-" ... (Karen Hawkins)

I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when ... (Heidi R. Kling)

We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too. ... (Mary Parker Follett)

The question is not how can I overcome fear? The question is: how can I use it creatively? If you have problems (and we all do), how are you going ... (Billy Marshall Stoneking)

Self-consciousness kills communication. ... (Rick Steves)

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no ... (Sparky Anderson)

I was a handful growing up. ... (Olivia Wilde)

He was overwhelmed by the love he felt for her; tears filled his eyes and the ache in his throat ran deep into his chest. He ran down the hill ... (Leslie Marmon Silko)

House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. ... (Mary Doria Russell)

Every night I empty my heart, but by morning it's full again. Slow droplets of you seep in through the night's soft caress. At dawn, I overflow with thoughts of ... (Shamim Sarif)

Trust your intuition. You don't need to explain or justify your feelings to anyone, just trust your own inner guidance, it knows best. ... (Unknown)

Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on ... (A. G. Mohan)

When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a ... (Warren Farrell)

The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. ... (Konrad Lorenz)

Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then ... (Mencius)

Or could it be, rather, that we have made it bleak: obscured its vibrant mystery with our ideological blinders, severed its infinite connectedness with our categories, suppressed its spontaneous order ... (Charles Eisenstein)

No: she is one of us, and what she said and did on that April evening was, like the warm sunlit sky, enough: for me, for the end of winter, ... (Andre Dubus)

I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at ... (Jerome Charyn)

A petition campaign called Work to Live. The goal of this movement was to pass a law that would increase American vacation time to three weeks after one year on ... (Rolf Potts)

Like animals we call to each other, was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon. ... (Hermann Hesse)