Top 100 Cornelius Quotes
#1. No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
Jorge Luis Borges
#2. it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some dim billiard room of his unconscious, that when he built "The Breakers" he damned himself.
Joan Didion
#3. The players were mostly seated, itching to begin, impatient men shuffling the packs of cards, a center lamp on each table, and a hail of welcome as Cornelius entered.
Edna O'Brien
#4. Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.
Junot Diaz
#5. I can say, through the power of the Spirit that wherever God can get a people that will come together in one accord and one mind in the Word of God, the baptism of the Holy Ghost will fall upon them, like as at Cornelius' house.
William J. Seymour
#6. Cornelius Tacitus when he says, that men are readier to pay back injuries than benefits, since to requite a benefit is felt to be a burthen, to return an injury a gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#7. There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.
Rick Atkinson
#8. A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling.
'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.'
'You said it, Cornelius!
Michael Moorcock
#9. Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.
Dennis Lehane
#10. His biographer, Cornelius Nepos, a younger contemporary whom he knew personally, wrote that Atticus behaved so as to seem at one with the poorest and on a level with the powerful.
Anthony Everitt
#11. At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.
Bill Bryson
#12. A Man Needs A Woman Like A Turtle Needs A Shell on His Back" SINGLE AGAIN by Rod Cornelius
Rod Cornelius
#13. If your determination to shut your eyes will carry you as far as this, Cornelius," said
J.K. Rowling
#14. Cornelius rose. He dried his eyes. For his spirit and will were waterproof.
Phil Bildner
#15. Ironically, this first-day problem for Ulam in 1943 would later become a critical part
of Ulam's work with Cornelius Everett in 1950 in which he demonstrated that Teller's design for the Super bomb was impractical.
Stanislaw M. Ulam
#16. Have you pen and ink, Master Doctor?"
"A scholar is never without them, your majesty," answered Doctor Cornelius.
C.S. Lewis
#17. Today, of Americans officially designated as 'poor', 99 per cent have electricity, running water, flush toilets, and a refrigerator; 95 per cent have a television, 88 per cent a telephone, 71 per cent a car and 70 per cent air conditioning. Cornelius Vanderbilt had none of these.
Matt Ridley
#18. Own your own dreams
Cornelius Crapp to Gerald Crapp
Noel David
#19. Human sin is stubborn," says Cornelius Plantinga, "but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half so persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way."3 Stubborn, persistent, unrelenting grace that changes us. Now that's good news indeed.
Dave Harvey
#20. The Bible says a great deal about entire families coming to Christ. Rahab the harlot ... the Philippian jailer ... and Cornelius, the Roman centurion. That could be true in your family too. You may be the one who could lead your family to Christ.
Billy Graham
#21. It is high time we turned to Grammar now," said Doctor Cornelius, in a loud voice. "Will your Royal Highness be pleased to open Pulverulentus Siccus at the fourth page of his 'Grammatical Garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits?
C.S. Lewis
#22. It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#23. I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'
Don Cornelius
#25. Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless
Cornelius Van Til
#26. If the God of Christianity exists, the evidence for His existence is abundant and plain so that it is both unscientific and sinful not to believe in Him.
Cornelius Van Til
#28. It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.
Cornelius Van Til
#30. The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks.
Moreover, it speaks of everything.
Cornelius Van Til
#31. Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#32. There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.
Don Cornelius
#34. People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.
Cornelius Plantinga
#35. The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.
Cornelius Cardew
#37. But the pain, the memories--those were the toughest. They'd come at you out of nowhere.
Marsha Cornelius
#38. There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them.
William Cornelius Van Horne
#39. Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.
Cornelius Plantinga
#40. At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing
a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.
Cornelius Plantinga
#41. A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.
Cornelius D. Jones
#42. All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.
Don Cornelius
#43. I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
Don Cornelius
#46. You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.
Cornelius Van Til
#47. For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.
Cornelius Eady
#48. I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#49. What I write about is not war but the courage of man.
Cornelius Ryan
#50. Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.
Cornelius Plantinga
#51. Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.
William Cornelius Van Horne
#53. Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos
#54. It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.
Don Cornelius
#55. What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.
Cornelius Eady
#56. Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.
Cornelius Lanczos
#57. If you live off a man's compliments, you'll die from his criticism.
Cornelius Lindsey
#60. A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.
Cornelius Cardew
#61. There isn't another way of letting the people we love that we love them except telling them that we love them.
Cornelius Mashilane
#62. The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.
Cornelius Van Til
#64. So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.
Cornelius Nepos
#66. Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.
Cornelius Plantinga
#68. If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#69. The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.
Don Cornelius
#70. I've always liked my men a little on the dumb side - Katherine
Cornelius Moore
#71. If she stays she stays if she goes jst let her go,making her pregnant won't stop her from leaving
Cornelius Mashilane
#72. Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.
Cornelius Eady
#73. It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.
Cornelius Lanczos
#74. Women love having a man in the store. She tries on a dress and I tell her to turn around so I can get the full effect. Or she likes a skirt but she thinks maybe the blouse is too plain. So I grab a scarf and drape it around her neck. That personal attention means everything.
M.R. Cornelius
#75. The way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.
Cornelius Plantinga
#76. Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.
Cornelius Van Til
#77. Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#79. For the Christian church ... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.
Cornelius Plantinga
#80. You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#81. No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.
Cornelius Nepos
#82. There are 3 ways of handling a situation. You can either become part of the problem, part of the solution or part of the pavement..
Cornelius Moore
#84. Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.
Cornelius Cardew
#85. A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#86. There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
Don Cornelius
#87. I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#88. To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.
Cornelius Van Til
#89. Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
Don Cornelius
#90. Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.
Don Cornelius
#91. In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.
Cornelius Nepos
#92. I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably true than other belief; I hold rather that unless you believe in God you can logically believe in nothing else
Cornelius Van Til
#94. Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#95. Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
Don Cornelius
#96. My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
Don Cornelius
#97. Cry if it's worth crying for,fight if it's worth fighting for,wait if it's worth waiting for.
Cornelius Mashilane
#98. People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.
Don Cornelius
#99. The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.
Cornelius Van Til
#100. We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children. They are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.
Cornelius Plantinga
