250 Famous Quotes & Sayings

Can you hover over your body for a while and peer beyond the fog that imbues the mind and sense the essence of a deeper you? — Garey Gordon

In Hebrews 12:2, 'the race set before us' is not a sprint but a marathon. We are promised popularity, ease, and fun if we will pursue the lifestyles presented to us by the world. We are promised easy credit, 250 channels, unlimited minutes, all you can eat, no-fault divorce, free wireless, confidential abortions, and safe sex.
Those are the 'joys set before us' by the world, and most people trust these promises to deliver joy apart from God. But notice what is happening. The pursuit of the excellence of Jesus Christ is replaced by the pursuit of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is replaced with the ratings of what or who is most popular, and self-control is traded for self-indulgence. Consequently, there is no foundation for endurance. Even God's people quit jobs and marriages at the same rate as the world. More tragically, many of God's people quit trusting God. They have been stripped of Christian character. — Jim Berg

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films. — Fiona Shaw

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. — Anais Nin

I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn't call myself a pot-head. — Jennifer Aniston

You have to marry me. I think I've just been voted off the committee on international trade-they think I'm unstable. And Tony took me off his lift. Mary says she'll quit if I don't bring you back. Ericka found your earrings, and she gave them to Jim. He said to tell you that you can't have them unless you come back for them ... — Judith McNaught

First of all, and before any creature was, God made heaven and earth out of nothing. — E.C. Marsh

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. — Robert Breault

I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them ... — Barbara Kingsolver

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters. — Geena Davis

To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of my swords or Cutteaux of which I may be Possesed; and they are to chuse in the order they are named. These Swords are accompanied with an injuction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self defense, or in the defense of their Country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands, to the relenquishment thereof. — George Washington

Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. Socrates made the same point 2,400 years ago: He is richest who is content with least, for contentment is the wealth of nature. — Christopher Ryan

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. — Christian Bale

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. — Charles Kingsley