Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

Bill Cosby

It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.

C. S. Lewis

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Benjamin Rush

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion...

Benjamin Rush

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

Benjamin Rush

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

Benjamin Rush

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

John Piper

The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy.

Kelly Quinn

I watch him every Saturday on TV, and I get so nervous for him, ... He calls me before and after games to see how I do and to wish me luck. We both pray for each other and send each other Bible verses.

Lindsay Roberts

I think they were being financially cautious and I understand that, but I also think when you do social services you have a responsibility to take calculated risks, ... I don't think that you should walk away from grant money on the table.

Arlen Specter

I think that some of the voting today was calculated to impact on the next nomination.

Daniel Boulud

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.

Jay Cutler

I take chances (on the football field) but I think they're calculated chances. I know what I'm doing.

Cindy Hockenberry

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

Katie Levinson

It is clear from this instance this is a calculated campaign strategy.

Michael Puhl

Mr. Brewer has clearly calculated the timing of the dissemination of his campaign literature to deprive me of the opportunity to make a measured and meaningful response to the voters.

Jane Wiedlin

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

Greg Lynn

Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Sibel Edmonds

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Jerry Mathers

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Stephany Smith

Whenever you miss three lay-ups, and fifteen free-throws you're not going to win the game.

Rick Perlstein

Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s - I have yet to find a truly novel development, a real innovation, in far-right 'thought.'

Larry Hagman

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

Kate Voegele

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Albert Einstein

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.

Thomas Frank

Some meetings' minutes are missing. There are a number of gaps.

Dale Lennon

Our start was very good. The first 10 minutes were pretty impressive.

Chris Griffin

Remember that you have, at most, three to 10 minutes to make a pitch.

Nykesha Sales

Playing 40 minutes is a priority. We have to try and play like that to prepare for the playoffs because they're right around the corner.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

Eric Norris

That's the way there going to be usually. I was real surprised the first three weeks went so long. But, just trying to get organized takes a long time, but most of the time when we're settled in, it'll only be about thirty minutes long.

Craig Bellamy

I was really disappointed with our first 20 minutes but we competed well after that. You are in for a tough night if you give 18 points start,

Adauto Lima

I still think it will be 0.75 in January, but the minutes pointed more toward 0.50 again.

D. James

I don't feel fatigued at all. I can go out and play 48 minutes if they want me to.

Dave Lewis

We come up every year once or twice a year.

Joe Manganiello

Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.

Aaron Krach

It was 1989, and there was a big brouhaha that he was so old and so gray. Now, we wouldn't think twice about it.

Grace Gealey

I am very disciplined with my skin - I tone and I moisturize my skin twice a day. I also exfoliate, and I try to get a facial, like, once every two months.

Vic Koenning

I've never had that before, in how many years of coaching? So we've had it twice in two games, so we've got to get that squared away, too.

Phil Jackson

The win wasn't important for me, it was important for the team, ... But getting the win is twice as nice.

Rand Paul

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.