Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Andre Braugher

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

Angela Carter

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Atharva Veda

Forbearance, compassion and incorruptible virtue are the three pillars of a happy life. Only such a life can be called civilized; the rest is barbarian existence.

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...

Barbara Amiel

We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.

Maurice de Vlaminck

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

Marwan Muasher

These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality.

Carl Safina

The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.

Bethany Hamilton

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

Carol Cox

We were so impressed with him, with his sincerity, his compassion and especially his passion for health care.

Luis Rodriguez

Usually, the girls just get two minutes on the phone, then they're off, ... This is different. Compassion is needed.

Heather Turner

My compassion has led to my own demise. I guess the solution is that I don't rely on funds until I get them.

Atharva Veda

It is foolish to try to shape the World; shape yourself as the embodiment of Peace, Love and Reverence. Then you will see all as Love, Compassion and Humility.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

William Shakespeare

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Susan Adams

It feels like a total lack of compassion. A total lack of humanity.

Bertrand Russell

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

Mike Listerman

That was very difficult. As happy as I was I had sadness in my heart because my son was hurting on the other side. ... This one's a lot easier.

Billy Gillispie

That was a hard-fought win, and I'm very, very, very happy to get it.

Olli Jokinen

We can't give him credit. He's probably happy he got his first shutout in the NHL, but we made him look good. We really didn't test that guy.

Steve Todd

We just didn't have enough speed. He has a lot more water length than we did. I was happy we stayed with him.

Kelvin Sampson

We were happy we won those games, but you could just tell that we didn't have our edge. When you lose your edge, it's hard to get back.

Chris Davis

We were happy we were able to negotiate it amicably,

Josh Wilson

We were happy to get 17 votes from his home turf.

Yolanda Griffith

We were happy in the locker room, but I was disappointed that we let our lead go away so easy. This has got to be a lesson for us.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Burt Shavitz

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

Nicolle Wallace

The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.

Jay Nixon

I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.

John Ortberg

Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.

George Washington

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

Henrik Ibsen

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Wang Jianlin

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Larry Bowa

(Johnny) Damon and (Derek) Jeter won't need much coaching. They know how to run the bases. The rest of them will need a stop sign now and then.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Kerry Healey

I think I need to rest up for the big day.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Peter Smith

Most of them did sell. I think only two or three are left.

Jim Tressel

Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.