Famous Benevolent Quotes & Sayings

Here we believe that God has already done His part; now it is up to us to continue the process. — Paulo Coelho

Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner compulsions and desires. — William O. Douglas

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. — Mark Twain

Everyone dies young. — Marty Rubin

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club. — Jack London

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be. — Desiderius Erasmus

To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one's own arrival and will survive one's own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death. — Hannah

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices. — Louis Zamperini

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. — Ronald Knox

When you live among piranhas, you find truth and goodness an asset. — Lisa Carlisle

That's how we grew up - kinda like Pops would put his drums, his percussion and instruments into the car and we would just go to a facility in the Bay Area and he would say to us, 'You think we have it bad? There are people worse off than we are. Let's go give back to the kids.' And that's how we grew up. — Sheila E.

He was grateful for Piper. He needed a friend, and he was glad she'd started losing the Aphrodite blessing. The makeup was fading. Her hair was slowly going back to its old choppy style with the little braids down the sides. It made her look more real, and as far as Jason was concerned, more beautiful. — Rick Riordan

You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble. — Peter Stone