Top 100 For His Quotes
#1. Listen to this: "Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel"!
J.K. Rowling
#2. She was in love, as she quite saw, with a middle - aged man who said the same thing to all the girls, who had been a prince for an evening which he'd most likely forgotten already, who had given her a ring with a redcurrant in it and who cared, to the exclusion of all else, for his work.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#3. Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
Jimmy Carter
#4. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway
#5. Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.
Marianne Williamson
#6. He still didn't think I was good enough for you."
"No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter.
Nicholas Sparks
#7. Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody;
for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
George MacDonald
#8. As for His failing you, never dream of it
hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#9. I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies.
Scott Aukerman
#11. As a mother, this was the most difficult prayer I had ever spoken in the silence of my thoughts, but in that instant I knew the greatest mercy I could pray for was not my son's safety, but for his death.
Sue Klebold
#12. justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.
Timothy George
#13. No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton Jr.
#14. When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
Mike Krzyzewski
#15. We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit ... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. A faint smile touched Emily's mouth. "You want kids?"
"I want bucketloads tucked neatly into a minivan," he laughed.
"Gavin Blake in a minivan?"
"Absolutely," he replied, reaching for his beer. "A funky forest green one, too.
Gail McHugh
#17. Commit harmless mistakes that will not hurt you in the long run but will give you the chance to ask for his help. Masters adore such requests. A master who cannot bestow on you the gifts of his experience may direct rancor and ill will at you instead.
Robert Greene
#18. Strange it was that the British commander-in-chief, known for his chronic gambling, seemed to give no thought to how his American opponent might play his hand. O
David McCullough
#19. He shook his head and went on to his favourite book website at the moment: GoodReads, intending to check the entrants for his latest giveaway. His Recent Updates page
Anonymous
#20. He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.
Malcolm X
#21. Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#22. Whatever strengths and weaknesses we possess are all a part of God's plan for our beautiful, messy lives. He uses every detail of our mess for his greater glory, and can redeem even our deepest, darkest, most daring mistakes until they're more beautiful than we could've ever imagined.
Stacey Thacker
#23. I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
Ed Rollins
#24. Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.
Holly Black
#25. It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.
Epictetus
#26. At the top of the ramp, Holston saw the heaven into which he'd been condemned for his simple sin of hope.
Hugh Howey
#27. Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
Thomas Paine
#28. When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.
Cornelius Van Til
#29. A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
John Howard Griffin
#30. We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.
Elizabeth George
#31. After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.
Melanie Phillips
#32. Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.
Dillon Burroughs
#33. So, I soberly laid my last plan
To extinguish the man.
Round his creep-hole, with never a break
Ran my fires for his sake;
Over-head, did my thunder combine
With my under-ground mine:
Till I looked from my labour content
To enjoy the event.
Robert Browning
#34. He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
P.G. Wodehouse
#35. I was counting the blades of grass, he said, by way of apology for his absentmindedness. It's a sort of pastime of mine. Rather irritating, I'm afraid.
W.G. Sebald
#36. A woman is at the funeral of her mother. There, she meets a man she doesn't know and has never met, who she thinks is her dream partner. But because of the circumstances, she forgets to ask for his number, and she can't find him afterward. A few days later, she kills her own sister. Why?
Jodi Picoult
#37. Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
Morris Gleitzman
#38. I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.
Carl Andre
#39. We haven't even reached 0.00000001% of where we want to reach. There is so much more to do. We want to make sure that no child should ever be on the mercy of anyone else for his/her education.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#40. Want and need are not the same things either. A want can be foregone. It is voluntary, a nice-to-have.
A need is required, a necessity. If he needed me, I'd be essential for his success, for his happiness.
Cynthia Sax
#41. The bathroom was humid with steam and soap. The elderly Palm Beach sybarite who had ordered the pleasure barge for his declining years had added many nice touches.
John D. MacDonald
#42. Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people who for eight years couldn't remember anything.
Jay Leno
#43. He held on. Weakly, struggling, in agony, he held on, drawing upon the great reservoirs of love and bravery I knew he possessed. He held on for his little girl. For his father. And I liked to think that maybe, if only a little, he held on because I refused to let him go.
Emma Scott
#44. It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.
Rudolph Straeuli
#45. A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
Criss Jami
#46. God gives gifts to and also of men/women for His purposes in promoting the cause of Christ and His Kingdom".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#47. We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.
Jerry Reinsdorf
#48. For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
C.S. Lewis
#49. I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.
Fred F. Fielding
#50. I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.
Nigel Farage
#51. If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding for him.
Anuj
#52. I am extremely thankful for my family. I am very thankful for what God is allowing me to do artistically. What a dream come true for me! That I get the opportunity every single day to use my talent for His glory.
Mary Engelbreit
#53. As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).
Hayley DiMarco
#54. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
#55. To paraphrase the disappeared Jimmy Hoffa, who certainly didn't go down in history for his foolish worries: "Eighty-five percent of what you worry about won't ever come to pass. And you can always deal with that other fifteen percent." Of course, look what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
M.A. Harper
#56. For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even ... ' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.
Patrick O'Brian
#57. Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#58. You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.
Alanis Morissette
#59. While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego; it sure is good for his intellect.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#60. A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
E.W. Howe
#61. When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
Myles Munroe
#62. Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to summon up neither the memory nor the illusion of any other, truer self. As a passerby I had a right to insist on my identity.
Kenzaburo Oe
#63. After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley
#64. A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
Carlos Castaneda
#65. The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God's realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.
Corrie Ten Boom
#66. So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.
Nan Shepherd
#67. God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army ... God is about to unloose a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit of an unprecedented magnitude ... He is looking for individuals who will be 'dread champions' for his cause.
John Wimber
#68. I should be campaigning for his release in print in a way that appeared crusading but actually wasn't quite effective enough to work. Like planting barely noticeable seeds of doubt into the prose. Subtle. I
Jon Ronson
#69. Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.
Dillon Burroughs
#70. Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.
Grantland Rice
#71. He planned for his son or daughter to have three or four toys, minimal sports equipment, and a thousand books. He didn't care for the rhymed nonsense of Dr. Seuss, but preferred anything that instilled basic knowledge sets. He could abide a talking animal, but not an inanimate object that spoke.
John Brandon
#72. [sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.
Peter F. Hamilton
#73. The love one feels for his significant is bigger than any ocean, deeper than any well, more powerful than any storm.
Shelly Crane
#74. The most dreadful part of all," the old stag answered, "is that the dogs believe what the hound just said. They believe it, they pass their lives in fear, they hate Him and themselves and yet they'd die for His sake.
Felix Salten
#75. Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.
Cassandra Clare
#76. Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak
Priscilla Shirer
#77. There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.
Thomas Friedman
#78. Abruptly, she let go of his wrists and allowed him to push her to her knees. She looked up, waited for his smile.
And then she punched him in the nuts.
Laura Ruby
#79. The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna Antrim
#80. Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
Ernst Mach
#81. I processed his words, my lips searching for his clumsily in the dark. I felt his fingers squeeze my neck. And that douche choked me out.
Camilla Monk
#82. My head jerks up in embarassment, but he's smiling. I drop my face, so that my hair shields my cheeks. They blush more for his smile than anything else.
Stephanie Perkins
#83. Let us never tire, therefore, of seeking the Lord - of letting ourselves be sought by him - of tending over our relationship with him in silence and prayerful listening. Let us keep our gaze fixed on him, the center of time and history; let us make room for his presence within us.
Pope Francis
#84. We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
Boyd K. Packer
#85. They mourned for his kind of Christianity, and he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on loving each other just the same.
Mark Twain
#86. A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.
Kin Hubbard
#87. God has prepared everything necessary for everyone to be able to gather an abundant harvest for His glory
Sunday Adelaja
#88. Come closer, and I will tell you.
But he forgot. He kissed her, and became lost in the exquisite sensation of his skin becoming too tight for his body. He murmured other things instead. A secret, a want, a promise. A story, in its own way.
Marie Rutkoski
#89. Within a few months, more than 40,000 pieces of mail totaling over $600,000 were given to the Tippit family. The largest single donation came from Abraham Zapruder, who contributed the initial payment of $25,000 he received from Life magazine for his home movie of the assassination.
Dale K. Myers
#90. Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
Viktor E. Frankl
#91. An alliance with the haramu-ful has always been a perilous thing. Perilous for his mother and father. For his friends. For his wife. For his people. Perilous for you.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#92. He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.
Patrick Suskind
#93. An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.
Henry Wotton
#94. The first and foremost sign of new birth in anyone is that he knows God intuitively, for his spirit has been quickened.
Watchman Nee
#95. This is your Father's world. He has your back, He goes before you, He is the rock beneath you and your heavenly Father above. This is your Father's world, and He has created this wide world is as a playground for His children.
Peter Leithart
#96. For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
Stanley Milgram
#97. If an angel out of heaven Gives you something else to drink, Thank him for his kind intentions; Go and pour them down the sink.
Ernest Hemingway,
#98. I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.
Vincent Starrett
#100. None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself
Richard Spinos
