Francis Bacon Painter Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him. — Alexander MacLaren

Please," I whisper. "Please don't make do this. Don't make me choose. — Cheryl McIntyre

I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful — Aimee Friedman

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My shirt is gray," I pointed out. "You've expanded my fashion horizons dramatically. I wear three colours now. — Stacey Kade

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all. — Will Rogers

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out. — Tammy Baldwin

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. — Faraaz Kazi

Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs. — Georges Bidault

... there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets. — L.M. Montgomery

I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and admirably descriptive of her pain: they did not come from her understanding, but, in order the better to enjoy the bliss which came to her from such delectable pain, she complained of it to her God. She would have been so glad if she could have been cut to pieces, body and soul, to show what joy this pain caused her. What torments could have been set before her at such a time which she would not have found it delectable to endure for her Lord's sake? — Teresa Of Avila

No boundary condition: The idea that the universe is finite but has no boundary (in imaginary time). — Stephen Hawking