Top 100 Bids Quotes
#2. Where's the hope that can abate
The grief of hearts thus desolate
That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
And mitigate the gloom of Age?
Religion bids the tempest cease,
And, leads her to a port of peace;
And on, the lonely pilot steers
Through the lapse of future years.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
#3. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
#5. Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.
Samuel Johnson
#6. That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Samuel Rogers
#7. As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.
Thomas Lye
#8. How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage? ... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.
Mario Gabelli
#9. My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.
Corey Koskie
#12. Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.
Patricia Churchland
#13. To run and work the law commands, Yet gives me neither feet nor hands; But better news the gospel brings: It bids me fly and gives me wings.3
Jason C. Meyer
#14. The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
John Stott
#15. Averaging the bids to arrive at a final price, the Leon
Marcus Sakey
#16. You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#17. The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
Millard Fillmore
#18. Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies
who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Richard Francis Burton
#19. The credit system has encircled this beautiful globe of ours like a serpent's coil, and if we do not mind, it bids fair to crush us out of breath.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.
Benjamin Franklin
#22. There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas
#23. A time when sky blue love bids farewell to the day and before dusk falls, the sunset ignites the smouldering embers of the moonlit soul...
Virginia Alison
#24. The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.
William Benton Clulow
#25. But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation? Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.
Washington Gladden
#26. The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
Bernard De Mandeville
#27. In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.
Juan Williams
#28. Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
Blaise Pascal
#29. He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#30. The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Thomas Chalmers
#31. If a lending institution is faced with bids for a package of toxic assets that are less than the carrying value of those assets, the sale of those assets would trigger a further loss and reduce the underlying capital of the institution.
Roger Altman
#32. Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Alexander Pope
#33. Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!
William Cowper
#34. Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she
bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!"
-Royce Westmoreland
Judith McNaught
#35. Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.
Laurence Sterne
#36. Run, John, and work, the law commands,
Yet give me neither feet nor hand.
Much better new the Gospel brings:
It bids me fly and gives me winds.
John Berridge
#37. The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.
H. Rider Haggard
#38. Nobody can advise and help you, nobody. There is only one single means. Go inside yourself. Discover the motive that bids you write; examine whether it sends its roots down to the deepest places of your heart, confess to yourself whether you would have to die if writing were denied you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#39. The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
Joseph Jacobs
#40. Canasta is a new game that bids fair to rival Bridge as a popular partnership game for four players. It's fast, exciting and dramatic; a single play, according to experts, can make a difference of 5,000 points.
Albert H. Morehead
#41. To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
Oliver Goldsmith
#42. Let every reader do as his conscience bids him.
Hermann Hesse
#43. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.
Pope Francis
#44. Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
Dante Alighieri
#45. The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.
Lord Byron
#46. It hurts! It throbs with pain, the like of which I never felt the half! Mortal flesh would scream again ... yet demon spirit bids to laugh
Alan Grant
#47. Where can you taste the joy of obeying unless He bids you do something for which His bidding is the only reason?
C.S. Lewis
#48. Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#49. More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
David Frum
#50. Without our God we should fear to move; but when He bids us to, it would be dangerous to tarry.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#51. Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
Matthew Pearl
#52. There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.
Soren Kierkegaard
#53. When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
Robert Herrick
#54. Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
Walter Scott
#55. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart ... Delve into yourself for a deep answer
Rainer Maria Rilke
#56. I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.
Dennis Miller
#57. In the midst of Our great grief,' announced Alexander III, 'the voice of God bids Us to stand staunchly for government relying on God's design with faith in the truth of autocratic power.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#58. When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#59. The devil is busy
trying to take from us
what we get from God,
and so God bids us hold fast.
C. Nuzum
#60. Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
Hippolyte Taine
#61. When the Eternal bows the skies
To visit earthly things,
With scorn divine he turns his eyes
From towers of haughty kings.
He bids his awful chariot roll
Far downward from the skies,
To visit every humble soul,
With pleasure in his eyes.
Isaac Watts
#62. Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
Horace
#63. The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.
R.A. Torrey
#64. If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.
Mark Twain
#65. In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.
George Washington
#66. Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.
Belinda Jeffrey
#67. To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
John Bunyan
#68. The New World's sons from England's breast we drew
Such milk as bids remember whence we came,
Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew,
This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
James Russell Lowell
#69. Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
Khalil Gibran
#70. When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,
Sirius appears, and on the horizon black
Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
Victor Hugo
#71. What we need," he wrote, "is to turn out of colleges young men with ardent convictions on the side of right; not young men who can make a good argument for either right or wrong, as their interest bids them.
Edmund Lester Pearson
#72. He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
Horace Mann
#73. We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...
George Sand
#74. With soul of flame and temper of steel we must act as our coolest judgment bids us.
Theodore Roosevelt
#75. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.
George Herbert
#76. The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
Still, still on hope relies;
And every pang that rends the heart
Bids expectation rise.
Oliver Goldsmith
#77. [God] holds in His omnipotent hand the priceless, precious, eternal gift of salvation, and He bids you to take it without money and without price.
Billy Graham
#78. When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.
Seneca.
#79. How can I forgive his tormentors?' she bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down together with her and plead for the pardon of all without discrimination.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#80. I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#81. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Robert Browning
#82. He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
Publilius Syrus
#84. The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#85. Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles ... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
George Bernard Shaw
#86. When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.
Thomas Jefferson
#87. Homecoming
My childhood's trees stand rejoicing around me: O human!
and the grass bids me welcome from foreign lands.
I lean my head in the grass: now home at last.
Edith Sodergran
#88. Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Mencius
#90. The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#91. Do not faint; the wicked may hold the bitter cup to your head, but God mixeth it, and there is no poison in it. They strike, but God moves the rod; Shimei curseth, but it is because the Lord bids him.
Samuel Rutherford
#94. I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids.
Ray Combs
#95. I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.
Linda Evangelista
#96. Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
William Butler Yeats
#97. The cry of the flesh bids us escape from hunger, thirst, and cold; for he who is free of these and expects to remain so might live in happiness even with Zeus.
Epicurus
#98. Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#100. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
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