Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Antonin Artaud

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Bernard Baruch

Financial storm definitely passed.

Cedric Richmond

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Beth Moore

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

Beth Moore

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

William Shakespeare

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

Deepak Chopra

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

Cass Sunstein

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Upinder Dhillon

We've got a lot to be proud of, but moments like this give us pause for thought.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Dick Cavett

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

Edna O'Brien

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

Charlie Simpson

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

Charlie Trotter

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

Sathya Baba

A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

Paul Johnson

They're very incongruous, these great, big, sometimes 30-foot trees, in the middle of an otherwise barren landscape.

Frank Kelly

This part of the cemetery doesn't look as barren as it did.

Jeffrey Joerres

We will be turning this barren site into a phenomenal building site. This will have a positive impact for Milwaukee.

Jennifer Devine

We expected to see declines, but we didn't expect such severe declines. If nothing changes, we could be facing barren oceans or oceans of fish we can't utilize.

Samuel Daniel

Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.

Isabella Bird

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

William Hazlitt

If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.