Laughing Through 50 Years Quotes & Sayings

[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists. — Terry Eagleton

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple. — Michael Grant

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly. — Robert Rauschenberg

Anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I've been writing this story; so it's hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over. — Soraya Lane

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players. — Abby Wambach

If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change. — Cate Tiernan

People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion. — Billy Graham

Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts — Sunday Adelaja

In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable. — Anita Diamant

But Bellamy had been doing stupid things his whole life, and he had no intention of stopping now. — Kass Morgan

Jesus Christ is God's everything for man's total need. — Richard Halverson

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire. — Ben Aaronovitch

I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this.' — Michael Buble