prayer sayings & quotations

January 31, 2009

Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer.
~prayer quotes by Anonymousreferee, explaining his job

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~famous quotes about Adversity by Garth Brooks

I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.
~prayer sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~prayer sayings by S�ren Kierkegaard

Christmas – that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragranceIt may weave a spell of nostalgiaChristmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in whi
~inspirational sayings about Christmas quotes by Augusta E. Rundel

Before we can pray, Lord, Thy Kingdom come, we must be willing to pray, My Kingdom go.
~prayer quotes by Alan Redpath

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Quotations about Imagination

December 17, 2008

Think left and think right and think low and think high.  Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!  ~Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!


A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant:  first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant.  ~Author Unknown

The Possible’s slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
~Emily Dickinson

Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.  ~George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.  ~Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962

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Quotations about Dreams

December 2, 2008

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.  ~Edgar Cayce


I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.  ~Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.  ~Henri Amiel

There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.  ~Stoddard King, Jr.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.  ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

Dreams digest the meals that are our days.  ~Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

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Quotations about Thrift

November 21, 2008

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?  ~Cicero


Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.  ~Samuel Johnson

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.  ~Orison Swett Marden

He who does not economize will have to agonize.  ~Confucius

Frugality is misery in disguise.  ~Publilius Syrus

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.  ~Benjamin Franklin

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Wise Life Quotes

November 15, 2008

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~Author : Martin Luther King Jr Meaningful Sayings

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. ~Author : Alfred Whitney Wise Quotes I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. ~Author : Blaise Pascal Motivational Sayings Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment. ~Author : B A Fajimi Famous Quotes I never feel age…If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time. ~Author : Louise Nevelson Inspirational Sayings War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world. ~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Nice Quotes

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The living moment is everything

November 5, 2008

Today is the greatest
Day I’ve ever known
Can’t live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow’s much too long….
~Billy Corgan, “Today,” Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins), 1993


The living moment is everything.  ~D.H. Lawrence

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.  ~Montaigne

Nothing ever gets anywhere.  The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere.  The moment is the only thing that counts.  ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922

Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that’s priceless is Now.  ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.  It is going on all the time.  ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Famous self-confidence quotations

October 24, 2008

There?s hope for every failure, as long as he doesn?t blame others for his fate.
~ by

There is nothing more exhilarating than being shot at and missed.
~ by Winston Churchill

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. It’s child’s reaction to and adult situation.
~ by

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
~ by Barbara De Angelis

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every one of us has a potential of greatness, waiting to be developed.
~ by

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
~ by Albert Camus

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Wise Famous Quotes

October 12, 2008

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
~Author : Odell Shepard Famous Quotes

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Inspirational Sayings

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
~Author : Andre Gide Nice Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
~Author : Aristotle Great Sayings

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
~Author : Chilo Meaningful Sayings

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~Author : Franklin Roosevelt Wise Quotes

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
~Author : Sydney Harris Motivational Sayings

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Famous Life Sayings

October 5, 2008

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
Edgar Alan Poe

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

To live is like to love–all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown

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Famous Life Quotes

October 5, 2008

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
Herman Melville

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch

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