Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

Charles Dickens

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

Charles Dickens

A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Charles Caleb Colton

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Stross

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

Charles Spurgeon

As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine.

Carl Sagan

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

Carl Sagan

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

Carl Sagan

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Carl Sagan

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Carl Sagan

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Deepak Chopra

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

Ralph Macchio

As the readers will see, we've only scratched the surface of what this crazy cosmos is all about. And Ultimate F.F. is the perfect place to do our exploring. Enjoy!

Rudyard Kipling

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

D. H. Lawrence

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

Cesare Pavese

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Carl Jung

I would rather be whole than good.

Greg Meffert

There will be no wholesale demolition of neighborhoods without consent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

Bode Miller

I've been myself my whole life.

Don Rickles

My whole act is off the top of my head.

Andy Dick

I believed in God my whole life.

Donatella Versace

Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.

Ann Patchett

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.