Catherine the Great Quotes

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

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• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God
  • Pride

• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Choices
  • Limit

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

• Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • God
  • Glory
  • Willingness

• God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Being
  • Opposite

• The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Up
  • God
  • Age

• An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Heart
  • Mad

• At one point the driver said, 'For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there.' Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • God
  • Joy
  • Car

• Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • God
  • Why
  • Game

• God is indeed dead.He died of self-horrorwhen He saw the creature He had madein His own image.

  

  Irving Layton
  • God

• You are happily being misunderstood in your use of the word 'God'.

  

  Sam Harris
  • God

• Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.

  

  John Adams
  • God
  • Thanks

• When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy them, but now they call this free will. At least the Greeks were being honest.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • God
  • Money
  • Book

• The best part about being a matchmaker is you are getting credits in heaven, as I really believe I work for God. The worst part is that matchmakers can often fix everyone up, all the way to the altar, but cannot find love themselves, so it is bittersweet.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.

  

  James Buchan
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Universe

• In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Positive

• I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Blessed
  • Patience

• The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Humanity
  • Dignity
  • Killing

• Everything changes when a man becomes purple

  

  Charlie McDonnell Chameleon Circuit
  • Changes
  • Purple

• God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • God
  • Desires
  • Grant