Courage Quote of the Day
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
Category: Other Quotes
Miracles Quotes
– “A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” – William Hazlitt
– “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” – Patricia Neal
– “After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
– “Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – and miracles began to happen.” – David Wilkerson
– “America – It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.” – Tom Wolfe
– “And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.” – Elias Hicks
– “Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.” – David Ben-Gurion
– “As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.” – George Whitefield
– “Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.” – Henry Miller
– “Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.” – Lionel Blue
– “Don’t believe in miracles – depend on them.” – Laurence J. Peter
– “Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.” – Edwin Louis Cole
– “Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
– “For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
– “God continues to work miracles in my life.” – Willie Aames
– “Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you’ve never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there’s no time.” – Patricia Richardson
– “Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.” – Samuel Smiles
– “How quickly we forget God’s great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.” – David Wilkerson
– “I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.” – Benny Hinn
– “I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.” – Corazon Aquino
– “The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.” – G.K. Chesterton
Rain Quotes
– “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost
– “A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” – Frederick The Great
– “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” – James Dickey
– “A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.” – Ray Evans
– “And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.” – Ferdowsi
– “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
– “Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.” – Dwight Morrow
– “Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.” – Joshua Slocum
– “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore
– “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank Howard Clark
– “Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” – Billie Holiday
– “Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there’s the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.” – John McGahern
– “For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.” – John Cheever
– “For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.” – Thomas More
– “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.” – Douglas William Jerrold
– “Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.” – Michael W. Smith
– “Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn’t have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.” – Herbert Simon
– “I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.” – Eden Ahbez
– “I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.” – Glenn Beck
Gas Prices Quotes
– “Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.” – Esa Tikkannen, 1979
– “I am having an out of money experience.” – Unknown
– “The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.” – Ralph Nader
– “The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.” – Bill Strickland
– “Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.” – Max Amsterdam
– “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” – Steven Wright
– “I figured out Karl Rove’s political strategy – make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.” – John Kerry
– “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin
– “It’s better to have beer in hand than gas in tank.” – Unknown
– “Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump. The only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.” – R. Owens
– “A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.” – Unknown
– “If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.” – George Gobel
– “Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.” – Bill Vaughan
– “Walking isn’t a lost art – one must, by some means, get to the garage.” – Evan Esar
– “The shortest distance between two points is under construction.” – Noelie Altito
– “Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.” – Lewis Mumford
– “In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder.” – Unknown
Imagination Quotes
– “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
– “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden
– “Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.” – Joseph Addison
– “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West
– “I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” – Peter Nivio Zarlenga
– “I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” – Duane Michals
– “I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
– “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Theodor Geisel
– “I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” – Calvin Trillin
– “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso
– “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo
– “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton
– “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil
– “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led – “Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” – L. Frank Baum
– “Imagination rules the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
– “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan
– “It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” – Paul Gauguin
– “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll
– “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
– “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey