Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Prior

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Charlotte Smith

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

William Congreve

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.

Virgil

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Abraham Cowley

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Matthew Arnold

It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Jodi Howell

I went out to shoot with (my dad) and he let me know straight out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. It's mostly my fault for getting down on myself. My teammates have tried to pick me up the whole way.

Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Corey Simon

I don't know whether to fault the seamstress or the guy I was playing against.

Rob Daum

He looked fine out there and I can't fault him for any of their goals.

Rob Corddry

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

Truman Capote

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

William Wordsworth

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Valentino Garavani

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Jay Garner

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that,

Samuel Beckett

How hideous is the semicolon.

Zora Hurston

If you haven't got it,/ you can't show it./ If you have got it,/ you can't hide it.

Parry Aftab

If you freak, the kids are just going to hide (their online activity).

Cierra Ramirez

I'm very well known for hiding my phone in really weird places. I can hide it in a refrigerator during a scene or under that bed. It's pretty bad, but at the end of the day we can all laugh at it.

Rachael Ray

If there are celebrities, they can't just come on and talk about their movie. It's come on and tell them how to get picky eaters to eat. Where do they hide their junk when people come over?

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Steve Bruce

The kick in the teeth was the hideous mistake we made in conceding that first goal.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

William Blake

Time is the Mercy of Eternity

William Gurnall

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

Philip Levine

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

David A. Bednar

The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live.

Billy Graham

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Kevin Hayashi

I haven't played that well in that tournament. And other times, others have played well. It's one I'd really like to win because it's the only 72-hole tournament we have.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Steve McCausland

It's unclear why the two others didn't jump.

Heather Dougherty

Then, once someone dangled it, others had to ante up.

Steve Johnson

You don't feel superior until you tell others about it.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Anton LaVey

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richard Pousette-Dart

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Richard Howard

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

Richelle Mead

You are the most boring teacher ever." He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.

Richelle Mead

I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, taleneted, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone-not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee-push you around." She put her glasses back on and began randomly lifting up pieces of papers. At last, she found a pen and grinned triumphantly. "Now, then. What is your brother's name?

Richelle Mead

He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.