Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Tebbit

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

Lord Chesterfield

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

Lord Melbourne

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Lord Melbourne

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Lord Melbourne

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Lord Melbourne

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Lord Melbourne

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

Lord Melbourne

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Lord Melbourne

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

William Hall

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected

William Godwin

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

William R. Alger

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Heizo Takenaka

There is a universally recognized duty to provide a postal service that must be protected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Phillip McGraw

You have the duty and gift of living. You don't have the right to sit on the sidelines-use your life and get back into the game.

Hansjorg Wyss

I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.

Zadie Smith

The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

Sylvester Croom

We had curfew duty together in Green Bay. He's not going to play tricks. He knows my philosophy, and I know his.

Charles Schumer

We need to examine what went wrong. If it was one mistake, fine, but it's mistake after mistake after mistake,

Valerie Wunder

We need to examine the options that would make the move viable for us.

Jerry Green

We have to get used to being examined and poked and touched.

John B. Larson

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

Koren Zailckas

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

M. Wolfe

Pat Choate has worked extensively to examine the intricacies of intellectual property theft and patent reform; he is at the forefront of the debate,

Samuel Johnson

Particulars are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed.

Sandra Buckler

Our officials and their officials will independently examine options.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Henry Charles Carey

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

Jeffrey Schneider

We have not been served with a lawsuit and don't have any comment.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

David Gilmour

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

B. F. Skinner

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Voltaire

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Cher

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Erwin McManus

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

Henry IV

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Harry Lloyd

If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.

Denzel Washington

We're not sure yet who will play my father,

Laurie McKager

We're not sure why that wall had not been tested.

Jeff Carr

We're not sure if the two discoveries are related. However, we will look into that possibility.

Eric Erickson

We're not sure if he made a right-of-way violation or not,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Without worship, we go about miserable.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

Carl Sagan

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Bill Johnson

We always become like the one we worship!

Bill Johnson

Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.

Bill Johnson

The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.