Saint Augustine Quotes
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.Saint Augustine
Quotes to Explore
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
Walt Handelsman -
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather -
Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
Malaika Arora Khan -
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings -
Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
Gabriel Medina -
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
Harrison Ford -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
Larisa Oleynik
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
Karen Armstrong -
It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
Gabriella Wilde -
I was brought up as a normal kid.
Ram Charan -
I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
Jaclyn Smith -
I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
J. R. Martinez -
I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George Boole -
If I'm doing a play, 30 to 40 percent of the people that come to the stage door have pictures of 'Alien' for me to autograph. And usually, the photos are pretty gory ones.
John Hurt -
O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works.
Martin Luther -
In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
Charles Tomlinson -
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.
Saint Augustine