Sin Quotes - Page 48

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.

When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure