Anlass English Quotes & Sayings

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears — Neil Postman

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as "worship" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do. — Swami Vivekananda

I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head. — Kate Bush

I was once the avatar of retribution. Now I just try to be polite. — Brent Weeks

I don't know why, but people tend to look at stand-ups and think they can act, which actually isn't the case. But never mind. I thought: if that's the area where they're looking, then that's the area where I'll put myself - even as a means to an end. And it was. — Catherine Tate

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world. — Laozi

You can't break me because you didn't make me. — Denzel Washington

Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing. — Joshua Leonard

For everything there is a reason. Just go and search it in the big mess! — Deyth Banger

If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be. — J. L. Mackie

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality. — Richard Rohr

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? — Jim Cymbala

Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking. — Ruby Wax

I always respected Neil Armstrong highly. He was probably the coolest under pressure of anyone I ever had the privilege of flying with. I never saw him flustered. — Charles Duke