Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
-- John Newton
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Categories: John Newton, Amazing Grace
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
-- John Newton
Categories: John Newton, Amazing Grace
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
-- L. Ron Hubbard
Categories: L. Ron Hubbard
People don't have the luxury in life of knowing what's going to happen. But I took a decision and I've lived with that decision, and, I suppose, if I had to take this decision all over again, I would take it again. I took this decision on the last day of my father's life when I decided that I would continue his work for a democratic Pakistan. And since that day I've never looked back and I've never wavered.
Categories: Benazir Bhutto
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
-- Pearl S. Buck
Categories: Pearl S. Buck
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Categories: Edward R. Murrow
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
-- Katharine Whitehorn
Categories: Katharine Whitehorn
He is for all mankind.
from: The Nativity Story (2006)
Categories: Blessed Virgin Mary, Keisha Castle Hughes,
The Nativity Story
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church
Categories: Francis Pharcellus Church
Categories: Ebenezer Scrooge, Seymour Hicks
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple
Categories: Shirley Temple
The ninety and nine are with dreams content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
-- Edgar Allan Poe
Categories: Edgar Allan Poe
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
from: Frida (2002)
-- Frida Kahlo
Categories: Frida Kahlo, Salma Hayek, Frida
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
-- Cyrus Curtis
Categories: Cyrus Curtis
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
from: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
-- Sirius Black
Categories: Sirius Black, Gary Oldman, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix