Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kacey Musgraves

My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

John Piper

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.

Charles Spurgeon

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We must never edit God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Barbara Ehrenreich

if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

Casey Kasem

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

Calvin Coolidge

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

William Shakespeare

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

F. Sionil Jose

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

Gene Hall

There's a lot that happens (at the state Capitol) and we have a stake in most of it. We covet our seat at the table.

Charles Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation

Lady Gregory

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Thomas Harris

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Bill Maris

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.

Sharon Stone

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Nina Jacobson

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

William Arbaugh

This problem exists whether you use WEP or not, but it is trivial to exploit if not using WEP,

Charles Nelson

Shamrock only exists on St. Patrick's Day. Every other day of the year, it's just young clover.

Billy Gardell

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

Rick Perlstein

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

Robert Menard

Freedom of the press also exists for viewpoints that shock the majority of the population.

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Alan K. Simpson

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Charlotte Bronte

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Charles Sumner

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles de Gaulle

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Michel Brunache

We have no objection that he travel if ultimately this is what needs to be done for him to get treatment.

Alan McCoy

We have needs for people with specific backgrounds and training." ()

Alan Sugar

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Roy Blunt

The product we had for today wasn't quite where it needs to be yet,

Brian Cox

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Brian Eno

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Boomer Esiason

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Diane Wood

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Deborah White

While they want to prevent pollution but they also want to prevent chaos.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

Brian Swanson

There wasn't enough pollution for a wholesale cleanup.

Steve Page

They are wrestling with a lot of the same pollution problems that we wrestled with several years ago and that, to some extent, we still are grappling with.

Lawrence M. Krauss

We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.

Sophocles

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Karen Horney

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Acquaint thyself with God.

Edgar Allan Poe

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

Cornelia Funke

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

Bible Bible

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Thomas Browne

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.