Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Flowers

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

Wole Soyinka

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Carroll Shelby

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

Ben Holmes

When an offering is priced at $17.50 and runs up 50 percent in a matter of minutes, it's trading forces, not fundamentals, driving it.

Fadel Gheit

When gas prices rise then discretionary driving is curtailed. People will think twice. I was just down south and everybody I talked to was carpooling.

Fadel Gheit

When gas prices rise then discretionary driving is curtailed, ... People will think twice. I was just down south and everybody I talked to was carpooling.

Victoria Justice

If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

Joe Farmer

We're not experienced in driving in snow and ice here, so the prudent thing is to have people off the roadway during a situation like this.

Jason Schenker

We're not even in the peak driving season. Imagine what it'll be like the Fourth of July weekend, or even Memorial Day.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

Alice Morse Earle

Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

Dennis Campbell

We are looking at a variety of forms in which investment could take place. There are no specific items that I'm in a position to discuss.

Andy Serkis

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

Monique Roffey

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Phil Fontaine

There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Friedrich Engels

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

Leo Ellerbee

We did the little things. We always preach doing the little things every day.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

Barry White

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

Martin Luther

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Martin Luther

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

Martin Luther

If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.

John Ortberg

There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.

Charles R. Swindoll

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

J. I. Packer

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time...

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.

Gina Hern

There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced.

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Laurie Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Libba Bray

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty