No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has be...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earne...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but ...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word e...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is tr...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is wort...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has be...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undr...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is wor...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, bu...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is wort...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earne...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness — these c...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of relig...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but ...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has be...
FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON Physicians are at special risk of abusing their authority and intimate access to others,
WILLIAM ROBERTSON While scientists can't always visit classrooms, they can provide us with an hour of their time to in...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy a...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation t...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of ...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacr...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER A man must earnestly want.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK Never permit failure to become a habit.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter o...
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter ...
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK 'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to ...
FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER They always win who side with God.
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about o...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and ...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation tha...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, hav...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind the...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lag...
FREDERICK WILLIAM SANDERSON There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet." ...
WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three mont...
FREDERICK WILLIAM BORDEN Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his t...
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty...
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier Is vacant in the west, while far and n...
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb th...
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don'...
OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
OSCAR ROBERTSON But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
OSCAR ROBERTSON We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit...
OSCAR ROBERTSON But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
OSCAR ROBERTSON You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or coll...
OSCAR ROBERTSON But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players wh...
OSCAR ROBERTSON Basketball is basketball.
OSCAR ROBERTSON You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot you...
OSCAR ROBERTSON Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
OSCAR ROBERTSON You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side pick...
OSCAR ROBERTSON When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing agains...
OSCAR ROBERTSON I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are...
OSCAR ROBERTSON When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do...
OSCAR ROBERTSON It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the co...
OSCAR ROBERTSON It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they co...
OSCAR ROBERTSON I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the y...
OSCAR ROBERTSON I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
PAT ROBERTSON I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United State...
PAT ROBERTSON But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga...
PAT ROBERTSON God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what G...
PAT ROBERTSON In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
PAT ROBERTSON It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
PAT ROBERTSON I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
PAT ROBERTSON Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political s...
PAT ROBERTSON I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned ...
PAT ROBERTSON The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christ...
PAT ROBERTSON The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from...
PAT ROBERTSON I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the...
PAT ROBERTSON It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of...
PAT ROBERTSON I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's n...
PAT ROBERTSON Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy...
PAT ROBERTSON The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ beca...
PAT ROBERTSON Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help peop...
PAT ROBERTSON People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
PAT ROBERTSON I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The paro...
PAT ROBERTSON Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...
PAT ROBERTSON I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
PAT ROBERTSON My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don...
PHIL ROBERTSON The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi He...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the k...
KAY ROBERTSON Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would sup...
SI ROBERTSON If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming fles...
PHIL ROBERTSON Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and peopl...
DALE ROBERTSON An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himse...
DALE ROBERTSON Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosex...
PHIL ROBERTSON When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an ev...
SI ROBERTSON Music should never be harmless.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woma...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous co...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an ideali...
ROBERTSON DAVIES It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stol...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themse...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I wil...
ROBERTSON DAVIES A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learni...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
ROBERTSON DAVIES He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you...
ROBERTSON DAVIES What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
ROBERTSON DAVIES He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn thes...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not o...
ROBERTSON DAVIES I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppres...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for th...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret langua...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.
JEANNE ROBERTSON "How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Sa...
PAT ROBERTSON Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Feminism is the radical notion that women are people
PAT ROBERTSON There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on som...
SI ROBERTSON I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, le...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things...
PAT ROBERTSON When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big,...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hu...
PHIL ROBERTSON I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all creat...
PHIL ROBERTSON It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
SI ROBERTSON Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because i...
PHIL ROBERTSON I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America...
PAT ROBERTSON Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
PAT ROBERTSON I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character act...
BRITT ROBERTSON People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON Some years later, Zeus and Hera were arguing about who got more pleasure from sex: men or women. To ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON Sense is nonsense to a fool.
ROBIN ROBERTSON What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the r...
ROBIN ROBERTSON I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck an...
PHIL ROBERTSON You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's ...
BRITT ROBERTSON It's about 50 percent more fuel-efficient than vehicles of today. It's totally clean. Absolutely zer...
BERNARD ROBERTSON We make no attempt to try to run the vehicle on the electric motor,
BERNARD ROBERTSON People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy, ... The way to get this car to market is to make trad...
BERNARD ROBERTSON People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy. The way to get this car to market is to make trade-of...
BERNARD ROBERTSON Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday. I don't have any further comment to make.
BERNARD ROBERTSON Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
PAT ROBERTSON Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs...
BETH ROBERTSON After 9/11, families were looking for things to do together and fun that was closer to home, and tha...
BETH ROBERTSON There are a lot of things in motion that will contribute to more bills being presented electronicall...
BETH ROBERTSON One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.
BETH ROBERTSON At this point, the market isn't that developed yet. Ten percent of all consumer bills will be presen...
BETH ROBERTSON It was great, a fabulous year. It was different than any other market I've been through in 36 years....
BETH ROBERTSON Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs...
BETH ROBERTSON I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how ...
BRITT ROBERTSON I'm just really happy I can be a part of this.
ANN ROBERTSON That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.
ANN ROBERTSON They were there more to control the city rather than rescue anyone.
ANN ROBERTSON It's like we kind of screwed up.
ANN ROBERTSON We learned a lot about ourselves today. There were a lot of positives that came out of today, and we...
AMY ROBERTSON Our goal for both field hockey camps is to challenge the participants and to make sure that they hav...
AMY ROBERTSON This is the best all-around field hockey class we have ever signed at Indiana. They possess a high l...
AMY ROBERTSON We need to sharpen up our receiving and passing skills, and the indoor style will be a good environm...
AMY ROBERTSON