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Day: November 21, 2010

Sunday Quotes

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. – H. L. Mencken

After I’d preached a message on Sunday night, I’d print it up. – Tim LaHaye

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord’s day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. – Charles Buck

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. – Irving Babbitt

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life – it lives in the constant present. – John Guare

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll. – Jimmy Connors

But I can’t wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I’m really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It’s been a wonderful year. – Gregory Harrison

But if I wasn’t playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away. – Paul Gascoigne

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. – Albert Schweitzer

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? – Johan Huizinga

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don’t understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn’t like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It’s the kind of a life a decent man leads, it’s something to live for and to die for. – Dalton Trumbo

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don’t ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers? – Martin Goldsmith

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. – Stephen Leacock

I am excited about this. We’ve got half of our goal. I’d love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything. – Hal Sutton

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. – Leverett Saltonstall

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. – Ida B. Wells

I decided he’d changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn’t like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks. – Anthony Holden

I don’t have an objective overview of Black Sunday. – Barbara Steele

I don’t read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either. – Tom Holt

Top 15 Inspirational Quotes

1. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. –Walt Disney

2. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

3. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. – Friedrich Nietzsche

5. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

6. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi

7. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect- Mark Twain

8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

9. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. – Robert Frost

10. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda

11. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else- Winston Churchill

12. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

13. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.-Napoleon Hill

14. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.-Theodore Roosevelt

15. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.-Roy Goodman

Bonus:

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. –Eleanor Roosevelt