Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Abizaid

The people who were low-level Baathists need to know they have a part in the future of their country,

Harry Sinden

When you think something has to be done ... you have to do it. It was not proper to let him keep doing what he was doing -- signing players, making plans for the future -- when we knew that at the end of the year we were going to relieve him of his job.

Nayvadius Cash

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

Charles Platt

A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.

Cheryl Cole

I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.

Carly Fiorina

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

Eric Fellner

Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.

Frederick Henry Hedge

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Freddie Stroma

I would most like to do film or TV. Possibly theatre in the future, but I'm in L.A. a lot of the time at the moment and if I was going to do theatre it would be in London.

Chuck Palahniuk

People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.

Ann Richards

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Rickey Henderson

Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

Red Skelton

People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.

Raymond Carver

That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.

Raymond Carver

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.

T. D. Jakes

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

T. S. Eliot

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Swami Vivekananda

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Swami Vivekananda

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

Swami Vivekananda

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Swami Vivekananda

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

Swami Vivekananda

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Swami Vivekananda

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Jimmy Carter

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

Emily Dickinson

A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.

Ellen Page

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

Henry James

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Henry James

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Helene Cixous

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

George Mason

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

John Ames

It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.