Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Allred

I think he attributes it to his teaching as a youth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

Jane Austen

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

Craig Kilborn

My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

Elizabeth Strout

You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family".

Charles Spurgeon

I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my heart or express my soul until it has also blended therewith the joyful nearness of that perfect love that casts out fear and ventures to speak with our Father in heaven as a child speaks with its father on earth. My brother, no veil remains.

Dick Van Dyke

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

Edward Young

Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

Edward Young

Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

Edmund Hillary

I would have said that during the early days of my life there was never a moment when I wasn't fit. We worked extremely hard on the beekeeping line, and both my brother and I used to compete, particularly when we were collecting honey. We would each have an 80-pound box of honey and we would race up the hill on the Tuakau track and race back down. We just raced all the time, and we used to keep very fit indeed.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jason Shirey

It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.

Brandon Sanderson

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

Azim Premji

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

Brad Falchuk

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Juvenal

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Calvin Coolidge

It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

Calvin Coolidge

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Dalai Lama

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

Desmond Tutu

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Deepak Chopra

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

Thomas Sankara

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

John Spear

Ray's a good friend of mine, but maybe this is political payback?

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Brian Andreas

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Billie Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Peter Schmitt

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Anne Sexton

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

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.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

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.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

Bo Schembechler

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Carmen Bambach

At the top you see a sketch of a sweet man. That's probably the man who got dissected.

Bob Friend

This is not a pep rally. It's telling the miners and the mine operators themselves to work right and make the right decisions.

Anna Kournikova

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Angus MacMillan

Mine production is nowhere near what we thought it would be at the start of the year.

J. C. Watts

Most of the compositions (on the album) are originals of mine or tunes that I really like to play.

Bible Bible

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

Bible Bible

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Bill Caylor

It's important that we monitor these miners with problems.

Paul Theroux

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

Nik Wallenda

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.