Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Dalai Lama

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Andrew Bacevich

Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

Christy Mathewson

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Christopher Marlowe

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Christopher McDougall

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Christopher Meloni

I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Dolly Parton

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Chuck Close

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

William C. Bryant

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

Neal Shusterman

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Khalil Gibran

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Napoleon Hill

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.

Napoleon Hill

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

Ben Harper

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Jean Paul

A sky full of silent suns.

Jerry Rice

Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.

Jerry Spinelli

The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.

James Buchan

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

James Cameron

The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct,

James Agee

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

James A. Garfield

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.