Quotes by American Authors - Page 48

Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.
George Allen
It you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.
Bob Hope
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
Charles M. Schulz
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners only survivors.
Frank Gifford
You can't think and hit at the same time.
Yogi Berra
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H.L. Mencken
Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George F. Will
The soul ... is audible not visible.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
Woody Allen
Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.
Elbert Hubbard
The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong
Excite the soul and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is you've got to be kidding!
Jimmy Carter
I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.
Jack Dempsey
Prayer may not change things for you but it for sure changes you for things.
Samuel Shoemaker
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
William Arthur Ward
I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.
Woody Allen
I love God and when you get to know Him you find He's a Livin' Doll.
Jane Russell
God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford
God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.
Norman Vincent Peale
God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability.
Mary Kay Ash
Millions of angels are at God's command.
Billy Graham
There is not a flower that opens not a seed that falls into the ground and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
Thomas Merton
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
Remember that everything has God's fingerprints on it.
Richard Carlson
In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
Jerry W. McCant
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
Henry Ford
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.
Oprah Winfrey
Here on earth God's work must surely be our own.
John F Kennedy
There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do that I have not been able to accomplish.
George Washington Carver
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.
Henry Ward Beecher
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
George Washington Carver
Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway.
Fredrick Buechner
Faith is believing before receiving.
Alfred A. Montapert
Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
William Arthur Ward
Believe in something larger than yourself.
Barbara Bush
Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look listen and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.
Dan Millman
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is but the conviction that there is a mystery and that it is greater than us.
Rabbi David Wolpe
If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul.
Robert H. Schuller
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith you must find things to believe in yourself for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
George Edward Woodberry
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
When I use the word spirituality I don't necessarily mean religion I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.
Dean Ornish
For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!
Thomas Jefferson
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund Muskie
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge
I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
Hubert Humphrey
When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Gerald Ford
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
Franklin J. Dickman
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.
H. I. Phillips
When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Josh Billings
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herbert Gardner
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson