Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Vladimir Nabokov

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

William P. Young

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Jose Saramago

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

Kevin Rudd

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Dave Hall

It had the potential to get really bad. The loss of life is unfortunate but, given the location, it worked out well for us,

Julien Pain

I think that the government is scared of what might happen in the country, if real information is given to the people.

Nelson Wong

I think that may have given them some momentum.

Richelle Mead

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Monica Denise Brown

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

Kate Morton

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

Leo Tolstoy

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Lenny Kravitz

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

Karen Kingsbury

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

George Leigh Mallory

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Madeleine L'Engle

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

Katherine Center

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.