Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Goleman

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Brennan Manning

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

Dalai Lama

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

Annie Proulx

and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.

Conrad Burns

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

Albert Camus

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Cindy Klassen

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

Herb Sendek

Those are tough shots. It's one thing to make that putt in your office on your carpet. That same distance putt at Augusta's a little tougher.

Sydney Schanberg

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Joan Didion

This one is really fantastic, ... It's not about grieving. It's about what happens when people die.

Philip Larkin

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

Chris Beatty

Life will throw stones at you, and it's what you do when that happens that counts.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Victor Heresa

I don't want my place to (get) out of hand. I've seen what happens to other places.

Frank Haith

If we play as hard as we can play we can live with what happens at the end of the game.

Justin Peelle

If that's what happens, that's what happens and I'll be ready to go and help this team win.

Bruno Seraphim

If that happens the market may rise very well next week.

Ronald Vincent

I was real pleased to win the first one. We'll see what happens from here.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Markus Zusak

I am hunted by humans

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Peter Schroecksnadel

Maybe they were scared of the police, we don't know. They got in touch and we're going to talk about it.

Chris Beatty

Maybe the senator should think about when he was 17 years old.

P. J. O'Rourke

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

Billy Donovan

Maybe it was defective spokes, maybe he needs training wheels, I don't know.

Lindsay Bowen

Maybe it was between $2 and $5. It wasn't that much but it was often.

Bill Stoneman

Maybe it was a little disappointing. But we took a shot at it. What are you going to do? We're going to be fine.

Arthur Rockwell

Maybe it was accelerated by the disappointing second quarter.

David Chang

I really don't care for the proper chef coat.

Bill Swanson

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

Pete Erlenbach

We can't tell if it is public or private. So we are going to take those properties out.

Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Juwan Simpson

I don't see what's so special about this kid.

Darin Erstad

Come on. What are you going to say about the guy? He's a special, special player.

Sara Zarr

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

Cliff Floyd

Nothing special - the same old Lieber. He doesn't make mistakes.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others ...

Oprah Winfrey

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

Margaret Atwood

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

David Bailey

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

Dave Attell

I'm not like a performer type.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.