Top 100 Alistair Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Alistair

#1. This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time.

Peter Lerangis

#2. Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires ... never make her hold back. - Felicity (The Pleasure Room)

D.N. Simmons

#3. Well, I did tell you I couldn't give you a thing. Maybe you've just realised that Alistair can give the god damn world, and the pleasure of kissing his shiny slap-head every day!

LeeAnn Whitaker

#4. I believe in witches, Sophia," his deep voice hypnotized her.
"I hope you don't burn me at the stake," she murmured to him.
"I don't burn witches. I set them on fire," Alistair whispered so low Sophia thought she had heard wrong.

Cristiane Serruya

#5. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown.

David Blunkett

#6. Ugh." Joss strode by them. "You men need to grow up. Mothers have sex lives too. How do you think you were born?" "Like Jesus," Alistair said straight-faced. "And no other fucker is telling me different.

Samantha Young

#7. The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

Gregory Funaro

#8. Lord," he said, "on this holiest of days, we thank you for food and ammunition. May our ships get through and the enemy's get lost." They all said "Amen" and then the orderlies brought in something that the cook had made out of bread crumbs and canned malevolence. Alistair

Chris Cleave

#9. My dear children!"
Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.
"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.
"Nellie!" Amy said.
"Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.

Rick Riordan

#10. History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living.

(Professor Alistair Dawkins)

Samuel L. Norman

#11. One day I'm just going to say, "Good evening, I'm Alistair Cooke. Screw the plot! Watch the program.

Rebecca Eaton

#12. You and I are more alike than you think," Alistair says.
"I don't see that at all," I say.
"Besides the fact that we both lied about our names," I add.

Carolyn MacCullough

#13. My name is Alistair Theirin and I'm king of Ferelden. Long live the king, long may he reign! And so forth. Pray to the maker he doesn't do something stupid..

David Gaider

#14. Good things come ... " Her head fell back, giving him total access to her throat "to those who wait.' Patience is a virtue, Alistair.

Cristiane Serruya

#15. He doesn't like making others uncomfortable.
-Helen to Sophia about Alistair

Elizabeth Hoyt

#16. Sophia, you're the best thing that could have happened to Alistair. I've never seen him happier than he is now.

Cristiane Serruya

#17. That night as they slept in each other's arms neither Alistair nor Sophia had any nightmares.

Cristiane Serruya

#18. He had big plans for you," I said with tears rolling down my face. "That's why it took so long." Sir Alistair stopped and looked back, looking with affection at Marco, Yipes, and me. "We all play our part. Some roles just dray on a little more than others.

Patrick Carman

#19. I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?' ...
It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery.

Chris Cleave

#20. In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong.

Andy Pick

#21. She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

Chris Cleave

#22. Alistair spoke behind his visor. "You look very pretty."
Mouse looked to Eanrin. "He sounds concerned. What did he say?"
"He said they're never going to believe you're a girl.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#23. Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, he earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.

Peter Lerangis

#24. It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time!" Dan hissed. "Uncle Alistair doesn't think so," Amy murmured. "He's a numismatist." "He takes his clothes off in public?" Dan said.

Peter Lerangis

#25. If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

Alastair Campbell

#26. purple van pulled up to the curb. The side door rolled open. A cheerful male voice said, "Hey, there!" The last thing Alistair Oh saw was a large fist hurtling toward his face.

Rick Riordan

#27. As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated.

Andrea Cremer

#28. Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Alistair Cooke

#29. Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.

Alistair Begg

#30. At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.

Alistair Begg

#31. We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine through us.

Alistair Begg

#32. The boy who harnessed the wind

Alistair Milne

#33. Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it's a result of obedience to the Truth.

Alistair Begg

#34. All of us are better when we're loved.

Alistair MacLeod

#35. Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

Alistair Begg

#36. Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

Alistair Sinclair

#37. I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.

Alistair Begg

#38. You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

Alistair Begg

#39. Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.

Alistair Begg

#40. It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips

Alistair Begg

#41. A dream," he whispered. "It's all a dream."
"How metaphysical of you," said the cat. "But we're neither of us impressed.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#42. I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing

Alistair Begg

#43. And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.

Alistair MacLeod

#44. It is in the context ... of the body in Christ that we understand who we are and where we fit.

Alistair Begg

#45. She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

Alistair MacLean

#46. Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.

Alistair Begg

#47. I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."3

Alistair Begg

#48. Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Alistair Cooke

#49. If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

Alistair Begg

#50. As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.

Alistair Begg

#51. Pipers at the Edinburgh contest were using two-droned pipes up until 1821, when such pipes were forbidden, because they allegedly gave an unfair advantage over other competitors playing the three-droned pipe.

Alistair Campsie

#52. In triathlon you don't get to race that much so when you're on the start line you just need to make sure you focus on the job in hand and enjoy yourself.

Alistair Brownlee

#53. Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

Alistair Cooke

#54. Your heart doesn't belong on your sleeve, sunshine. It belongs strapped to your boot next to a six-inch dagger.

Alistair Cross

#55. Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

Alistair Cooke

#56. The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

Alistair Begg

#57. We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

Alistair Begg

#58. Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.

Alistair Begg

#59. The thorns, ruthless in their protection of the beauty they upheld, tore at my skin, bleeding me like a vampire's victim and no doubt loving every moment of it. The vines snaked around my hands and arms trying to cut the circulation of blood.

Alistair Cross

#60. The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

Alistair Begg

#61. Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

Alistair Begg

#62. There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate.

Alistair MacLean

#63. On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

Alistair Darling

#64. The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

Alistair Darling

#65. The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.

Alistair Begg

#66. There are times in our Christian life when we cannot see beyond the next step and we have to trust God.

Alistair Begg

#67. Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.

Alistair Begg

#68. Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

Alistair Begg

#69. A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this
not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.

Alistair Begg

#70. I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

Alistair Cooke

#71. I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

Alistair Brownlee

#72. I am not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do. No mystique.

Alistair MacLean

#73. There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

Alistair Begg

#74. Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again.

Alistair Begg

#75. It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

Alistair Cooke

#76. Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Alistair Darling

#77. 8 went down and didn't rise. The Bastard's candle had been snuffed. BleakWarrior,

Alistair Rennie

#78. There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

Alistair MacLeod

#79. I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.

Alistair Brownlee

#80. We must be willing to say what the Bible says.

Alistair Begg

#81. When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Alistair Begg

#82. To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Alistair Cooke

#83. There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven.

Alistair Begg

#84. These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

Alistair Cooke

#85. The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They have been with us since the world began and are still with us, in every country in the world.

Alistair MacLean

#86. The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

Alistair Cooke

#87. Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

Alistair Begg

#88. The pathway to lasting honor is to honor Christ.

Alistair Begg

#89. Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this.

Alistair Cross

#90. Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Alistair Darling

#91. Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

Alistair MacLeod

#92. Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

Alistair Cooke

#93. You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach.

Alistair Begg

#94. I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow."

'Pomona

Alistair McDowall

#95. Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

Alistair Cooke