Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Dennis Crowley

I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.

Naveen Jain

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

Charles Hazlewood

In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'

Carly Fiorina

The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.

Erwin McManus

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Colum McCann

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

Desi Arnaz

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

Anthony Bourdain

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Eric Fellner

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Penn Jillette

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

Tom Smothers

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Ezra Taft Benson

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.

Ellen G. White

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

B. F. Skinner

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Charles Stanley

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Edwin Louis Cole

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

John Taylor Gatto

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Plato

Through obedience learn to command.

Baruch Spinoza

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Dallas Roberts

Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

Lisa Busch

We play as a team and someone always steps up. Tonight it was just my time, my chance, to be there for the team and do that.

Adam Miller

We are just taking it step by step. This was another big win for us.

Terry Mulkey

We're just going to take it one step at a time and do it right.

Gerald Celente

Wal-Mart stepped to the plate, ... They didn't have to do that.

Erik Crawford

We had opportunities to step up and make plays, and we didn't.

Reggie Hamilton

Trey is Trey. I know that Trey is going to step it up and make big shots.

Jerry Colangelo

You know, usually everyone just does a two-year term. I've had two terms, and the right thing politically is to step down.

Pat Burrell

We need you to come up big. It's time to step it up.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Edie Falco

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

Carlos Gomez

We're like cheese. Everyone wants to take a bite.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Greg Kampe

Wooten does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. He's pretty good.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.