Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But I would say that, first of all, all those things can be accomplished without religion. You can be ethical, somebody who does the right thing without feeling that he has to in order to get his ass saved in the next life.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.

Johnny Knoxville

She threw up from soup on my shoes,

Ann Brashares

Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

Elie Wiesel

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

Dan Harmon

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

Clive James

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

Dylan Moran

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Alan Greenspan

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Alan Bean

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.

Charles Dickens

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Charles Caleb Colton

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Charles Stross

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Charles Spurgeon

The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.

Charles Spurgeon

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

Alan Moore

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Alan Moore

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Al Pacino

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Al Pacino

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.