Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristophanes

Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.

Alberto Manguel

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

Donna Brazile

Why you? Because there is no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn't soon enough.

Chuck Palahniuk

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

George Herbert

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

Bel Powley

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Ben Lawson

The purpose is to get the idea of throwing boomerangs in the university sphere.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Howard Nemerov

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Jim Henson

Watch out for the icy patch

Lindsey Vonn

I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

Robert Frost

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Robert Frost

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.