Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Samuel Butler

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Samuel Butler

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Christina Ricci

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Alan Cohen

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

Alan Cohen

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

Alan Cohen

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

Alan Cohen

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

Alan Cohen

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

Walter Benjamin

In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at periods in my life there's been very little else that I've had going. I've actually needed to call on, to feel the forces of good in this universe to be able to survive.

Ludwig von Mises

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Charlie Gonzalez

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Charlie Chaplin

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Charles de Lint

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Alan Watts

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Chris Carter

I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Ezra Taft Benson

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.