Top 100 Quotes About Him
#1. God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.
Thomas More
#2. A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.
Jonathan Swift
#3. He would always make her feel too big and too gruff and too shocking; she would forever be trying to watch her words when she was with him. He was not the kind of person who liked her true self, for better or worse.
Anne Tyler
#4. And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.'
'Having been here thirty-four days,' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.'
'Why's that then?' he smiles.
'Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere.
David Peace
#5. The Father's plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, and to bring them safely home to Him with resurrected, exalted bodies. Heavenly Father desires us to be together in the light and filled with hope.
David A. Bednar
#6. Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
L.M. Montgomery
#7. There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
Joe DiMaggio
#8. It is vital for these new believers to understand that this is not a cult following any man. We seek the risen Lord. Our allegiance is to him alone. All power derives from Jesus and resides in him.
Janette Oke
#9. We, as human beings, do not "enable" God to do anything. We are subject to His divine will
it is not the other way around. He is our Creator, and we are subject to Him.
Curtis A. Chamberlain
#10. In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.
"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"
No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.
Orson Scott Card
#11. Whoever defends himself will have himself for defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself.
A.W. Tozer
#12. River is like Mayweather; I could throw every punch - every argument I have - at him, and he'd never back down.
Lisa De Jong
#13. I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#14. What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Daniel Webster
#15. He felt the shock of contact. The weight of her against his chest felt like something she had decided to entrust to him. He
Michael Chabon
#16. I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#17. He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
Henry James
#18. Knowing that the instrument could produce a sound that echoed all the sadness and hope of humanity gave him pause.
Michael Connelly
#19. You plowed him with a pitchfork?"
"I sure did. My daddy didn't raise no hothouse flower, you know."
Gideon had a feeling he would have liked her daddy.
Karen Witemeyer
#20. Power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
Beth Revis
#21. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Erich Fromm
#22. It was sure a privilege to love him.
John Green
#23. That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.
Martin Luther
#24. To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.
Neal Stephenson
#25. But why show a devil you know his strength. It just makes me a threat to him.
Pierce Brown
#26. I didn't want someone who would have to force himself to love me or for me to pretend that I loved him back. I had always hoped that love would be mutually instinctual and natural- as easy as breathing
Tina Reber
#27. He's always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn't work.
Ida Lokas
#28. When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.
Chanakya
#29. You lit all these candles ... " She glanced at them, then back at him.
"I wanted it to be special."
"Any time we're naked in a bedroom together is special to me.
Laurann Dohner
#30. The crying wailed, somewhere beneath the planks. Several sweeps of the light showed that the cellar was otherwise deserted. Though the face mouthed behind him, he ventured down. For God's sake, get it over with; he knew he would never dare return.
Ramsey Campbell
#31. Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.
John Shelby Spong
#32. And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
Ian McDiarmid
#33. Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
Thiruvalluvar
#34. Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.
Shelby Foote
#35. Eric once chatted with Warren Buffett about what he looks for when acquiring companies. His answer was: a leader who doesn't need him.
Eric Schmidt
#36. I had been feeling that it was more important for me to understand how much Jesus loved me than it was for me to figure out how to love Him.
Jared C. Wilson
#37. He looked at the cop. He'd known the man less than a day, didn't trust him, and wasn't sure he much liked him. And this was who he'd die with.
James S.A. Corey
#38. Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey
#39. It is no light matter to meet God after having denied Him all one's life.
Holly Ordway
#40. God hates me," she heard him mutter. "Now there are two of them.
Nalini Singh
#41. Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only
George Saunders
#42. A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
Djuna Barnes
#44. Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#45. I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.
Thomas Mars
#46. Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.
Leonard Sax
#47. Now Thorndyke is going to enjoy himself. To him a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy forever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery.
R. Austin Freeman
#48. Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#49. If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
Carine Roitfeld
#50. I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
John F. Kennedy
#51. Over the years, they had destroyed all of him, removing hands, arms, and legs and leaving him with substitutes as delicate and useless as chess pieces. And now they were tampering with something more intangible
the memory; they were trying to cut the wires which led back into another year.
Ray Bradbury
#52. But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
William Barclay
#53. One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
#54. A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C.S. Lewis
#55. When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
Philippa Gregory
#56. It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.
Irene Thomas
#57. In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't give too much away, but when he finally does make it, they're not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
Adrian Hodges
#58. And if I catch him staring at your ass one more time, I'm going to punch him in the face.
Samantha Wayland
#59. All things are by Him and for Him. He utters Himself also for His own delight and sees that He is good. He is His own begotten and what proceeds from Him is Himself. Blessed be He!
C.S. Lewis
#60. You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Otto Dix
#61. My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
My heart ... not so much.
Simone Elkeles
#62. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
D.H. Lawrence
#63. My work embodies little visions of the great intangible ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.
Marsden Hartley
#64. I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.
Sarah J. Maas
#65. Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.
Tim Wise
#66. Although I am good at enumerating my father's flaws, it's hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he's dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
Alison Bechdel
#67. Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision.
Charlie Munger
#68. Especially when it came to his triumphant denunciations of his political enemies, each of whom, she suspected, were only too relieved that it was him rather than they who had been caught. She
Alexander McCall Smith
#69. You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
Saint Augustine
#70. Please don't be angry with him. My mither didn't love him, and he's still trying to make her.
Laurie Alice Eakes
#71. ENOUGH NOISE. STAND ASIDE. I WILL GUT HIM.
Jay Kristoff
#72. God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.
Franklin Graham
#73. George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
Mark Shields
#74. If there was one thing in the world Ty was willing to give up everything for, it was sitting right there in front of him.
Abigail Roux
#75. It's here somewhere," I assured him.
"Please tell me you haven't lost it already."
"We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.
Alexandra Adornetto
#76. In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.
Molly Tarlov
#77. God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.
John Piper
#78. I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
Aage Bohr
#79. It frightens him to think of her this way. It makes her seem, in terms of love, so vast.
John Updike
#80. What he doesn't realize is that I'm already standing at the bottom, waiting to catch him. And I never miss.
Liz Reinhardt
#81. He steps over to me and takes the empty bowl from my hand, setting it on the desk. Grasping my chin, he pulls my face up so I'll look at him. His thumb brushes across my bottom lip, and he's quiet for a minute before whispering, "Only a fool would be bothered by being with you.
J.M. Darhower
#82. Before I can answer, the horde descends on him. It's scarier than a zombie apocalypse.
"Shit," he mutters.
"Oh my God, I love ketchup too!" a girl squeals at the bottle in his hand. "We have so much in common!
Miranda Kenneally
#83. My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.
Clint Eastwood
#84. Damn him. I could love. I had it all inside of me. If he knew so much about me, why couldn't he see that? If I didn't love him, how could it hurt so badly?
Tarryn Fisher
#85. The sole thing that had kept him from going on and hunting her down had been an enraged defiance against a sexual pull that had begun to turn into an obsession.
Nalini Singh
#86. Loki was hurling fire runes and holding a running commentary on her battle, to which no one but him was listening to.
'And Thor gets in behind Frey and - WHAM! BOOM! That's got to hurt. And Loki SCORES! This boy's on FIRE!
Joanne Harris
#87. Jory gripped her chin, turning her to face him. His jaw hardened, and he tried to remain gentle. "Time to make a choice, sweetheart. Please. Choose me.
Rebecca Zanetti
#88. Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.
Anthony Perkins
#89. She was probably having a few murderous thoughts of her own about any woman that touched him. Good, they were making progress.
R.L. Mathewson
#90. He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as that, and as stupid and complicated. It's terrible. It's like knowing someone you love is dead but not having the body to prove it. He loved me. I know it.
Roddy Doyle
#91. -Why are we killing Silas if you loved him so much?
-People change
Quil Carter
#92. He nearly always put his hand on his friend's arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him.
Carson McCullers
#93. He sighed. A year since he'd left her the morning after the final battle with her brother. A year since he'd held her in his arms. A year since he'd kissed her. A year since he'd buried his head between her thighs. A year since she'd punched him in the face.
G.A. Aiken
#94. God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him ...
Watchman Nee
#95. I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He'll figure it all out anyway.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. Bailey, wait."
She didn't even turn his way again, simply flung her hand up and flipped her middle finger up at him. Damn her stubborn pride and damn his addled brain.
T.J. Kline
#97. All I know is that I can never see him enough. I can never kiss him enough. There isn't enough of him in the world. I'll always be on a quest for one more look from him, one more laugh.
Anne Dayton
#98. Very slowly Elizabeth leaned forward until her forehead rested on his shoulder, shuddering with pleasure and relief at the feel of him, at his smell.
Sara Donati
#99. He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.
Davis Bunn
#100. Rise, Elias Veturius." Tas smacks my face, and I blink at him in surprise. His eyes are fierce. "You gave me a name," he says. "I want to live to hear it on the lips of others. Rise." I
Sabaa Tahir
