Quotes
Adventures in Odyssey - There are two people in this conversation, Connie, and you're not both of them.
Aimee Mullins - Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Alan Alda - Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
Alan Beam - I disagree with the notion that God uses things in our lives to “test” us, mostly because that implies that we are in some sort of practice round getting ready for the real thing, whereas I tend to believe that this is the real thing.
Alan Beam - I'm confident that God will provide. But it's easy to be confident when it's someone else who needs provision.
Albert Camus - Those who write clearly have readers; those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albertano of Brescia - The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
Alexander Pope - Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexis de Tocqueville - Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alfred Adler - It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Amy Carmichael - You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Anatole France - Never lend books, for no one ever returns them.
Angela Hunt - I know why you risk your neck...because you're afraid to risk your heart.
Anna Quindlen - Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Him that I love, I wish to be free—even from me.
Anonymous - A halo has to fall only a few inches to become a noose.
Anonymous - Attempt something so big that without God's help it will surely fail.
Anonymous - Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
Anonymous - Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
Anonymous - Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Anonymous - God can use you, not in spite of your scars, but because of them.
Anonymous - I may not be who I should be; I may not be who I want to be; I may not be who I could be; but thank God I'm not who I used to be.
Anonymous - If you can't have joy in the midst of your circumstances, then changing the circumstances won't bring you joy.
Anonymous - If you have a problem money can solve, you don't have a problem – you have an expense.
Anonymous - If you take the parts of Scripture that you agree with and disregard the parts you do not, it is not Scripture you believe, but yourself.
Anonymous - Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Anonymous - Pain is not optional. Suffering is.
Anonymous - Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
Anonymous - Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Anonymous - The past is a frame of reference, not a place of residence.
Anonymous - The path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked.
Anonymous - The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.
Anonymous - We don't need to clean up our act before we come to Christ. If we could save ourselves, we wouldn't need salvation from Him. He takes us just as we are but loves us too much to leave us that way.
Anonymous - You can't hold someone down without staying with them.
Anthony Burgess - If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Aristotle - It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle - Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle - No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle - Nothing is what rocks dream about.
Aristotle - One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.
Arthur Rubenstein - I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Benjamin Disraeli - Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief, the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Franklin - He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Bill Clinton - If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Blain Norfleet - If I am to err, I will err on the side of grace every time.
C.S. Lewis - Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C.S. Lewis - Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
C.S. Lewis - Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.
C.S. Lewis - Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis - Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C.S. Lewis - Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis - Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis - If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
C.S. Lewis - We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C.S. Lewis - You don't have a soul; you are a soul. You have a body.
Cato the Elder - After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he has one.
Charles Reade - The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Chinese Proverb - The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.
Christian Boree - When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Clyde Aster - When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.
Corneille - One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Danae Jacobson - You don't have to know your future to have one.
Daniel Mildren - My goal is to live forever or die trying.
Dante - There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
Democritus - If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Denis Diderot - We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Dorothy Bernard - Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Douglas Adams - Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams - I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Dr. Johnson - People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
Dr. Phil - A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.
E. B. White - Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.
Eleanor Farjeon - Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.
Ellen Glasgow - All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
English proverb - Many a true word is spoken in jest.
English proverb - The absent are always in the wrong.
Eric Hoffer - The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Ethel Barrett - We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Euripides - Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.
Francis Schaeffer - All truth is God's truth.
Francis Schaeffer - Belief does not change what is.
Frank Swinnerton - The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
Franklin Adams - Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Fred Allen - A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Frederick Buechner - Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.
G. K. Chesterton - Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Geneen Roth - No act of love is ever wasted.
George Carlin - Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Henry Lewes - The only cure for grief is action.
George Herbert - Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
George Pettie - It is better to be alone than in ill company.
George Santayana - To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
Gerald O'Collins - Christianity without the Resurrection is not simply Christianity without its final chapter. It is not Christianity at all.
Golda Meir - Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
H. L. Mencken - Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Harry S Truman - The absence of war is not peace.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - All appears to change when we change.
Henry A. Kissinger - No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry A. Kissinger - The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Rollins - It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Smith - A sin is two sins when it is defended.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Ward Beecher - Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
J. Kenfield Morley - The size of a man can be measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
Jacopo Sannazaro - Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
James M. Barrie - The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James Marion - As a Christian I am told to fish, not clean up the fish pond.
James Russel Lowell - The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Jane Austen - Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen - I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jason Jordan - True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Jean Paul Richter - A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
Jerry Garcia - Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Jim Carrey - I think everyone should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed so they can see it's not the answer.
Jodi Picoult - Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was just a defense mechanism...because it was too embarrassing to admit that in spite of the bum deals you kept getting, you hadn't completely given up.
Johann Wolfgang von Gothe - We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
John Milton - Jealousy is the injured lover's hell.
John Sutherland Bonnell - Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
Kasia Clarke - Yes, you're supposed to try and be like Jesus, ...However, God knows you're incapable of being perfect, of always loving, of always being kind, of always doing the right thing, of always knowing what's true, of always keeping Him in your thoughts, and of, essentially, being Jesus. That's why you are not Him.
Khalil Gibran - Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.
Kimberly Johnson - Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Krishnamurti - It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Laura Ownbey - The truth tends to suck, sting, burn, and destroy fluffy illusions. Learning it is good for you anyway.
Leonardo da Vinci - As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Marcus Aurelius - How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Marcus Aurelius - It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius - Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Margaret Anderson - In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Marian Wright Edelman - We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Mark Hall - And Mary shivers in the cold, trying to keep the Savior warm. Born among the animals, wrapped in dirty rags, because...There was no room for Him in the world He came to save.
Mark Hall - I don't think it bothers the world that we sin. I think it bothers the world that we act like we don't.
Mark Hall - My only mission was to throw myself into [my friend's] life and love on him. After both tragedies in his life, I failed in some measure...I made more excuses than phone calls.
Mark Twain - Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain - Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain - Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain - If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
Mark Twain - In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
Mark Twain - It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain - The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain - The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain - There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
Martin Luther - Pray as though everything depended on the Lord and then go out and work as if it all depended on you.
Mauirce Switzer - There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
Max Lucado - Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.
Michael Vitale - Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else.
Michel Eyquem - An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Mignon McLaughlin - It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mitch Albom - Life has to end, love doesn't.
Nietzsche - At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Nietzsche - It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Nikki Giovanni - Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Oscar Wilde - A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde - Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde - Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde - There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
Oswald Chambers - The good is always the enemy of the best.
Ovid - To be loved, love.
Paul Valery - The future is not what it used to be.
Philip Sidney - Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan - Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.
Plato - We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Portuguese proverb - Visits always give pleasure—if not the arrival, the departure.
Rachel Meltser - All behavior is purposeful.
Ray Wall - True love is giving all you have to someone you know you're going to lose.
Robert Frost - In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Jordan - Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.
Robert Schuller - Failure doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin - Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
Saint Augustine - Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine - Love, and do what you will.
Saint Augustine - Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Samuel Johnson - I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson - It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson - Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson - We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.
Scott Adams - Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams - Nothing is more deflating than finding out who thinks they are about your level.
Scott Adams - You haven’t achieved equality until you’re a legitimate target for humor.
Seneca - If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Sigmund Freud - He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
Sophocles - The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Spanish proverb - Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Susan Cheever - Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
Swedish proverb - Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
Søren Kierkegaard - Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Søren Kierkegaard - Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Søren Kierkegaard - The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Terry Pratchett - Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
Tony Hoagland - We would give anything for what we have.
Turkish proverb - No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
Vernon Law - Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Voltaire - It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire - The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
W. C. Fields - Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
Waiter Rant - Seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
Walter Bagehot - The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Washington Irving - There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
William Blake - If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William James - Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James - The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William Ralph Inge - The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Shakespeare - Brevity is the soul of wit.
