Famous Quotes & Sayings

William A. Ward

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.

Bhagavad Gita

A disciplined person, enjoying sense objects with senses that are under control and free from likes and dislikes, attains tranquillity.

Bill Vaughn

When a fellow you knew in school attains some lofty public office, you're glad for his sake - but somewhat apprehensive for the future of the country

Clare Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

Christopher Morley

Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained

Rig Veda

Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of Karma does he ever hesitate.

Atharva Veda

One, who does not cast evil eyes on her 'own' house... who does not have malevolence towards her husband... giver of joy....seeker of family's welfare...who treads on the righteous path... gives happiness to all... serves all... gives birth to good sons... keeps her brother-in-laws satisfied and gives nourishing food...May such a wife help us attain prosperity.

Bhagavad Gita

For the wise who seeks to attain yoga (of meditation or the equanimity of mind), Karma-yoga is said to be the means; for the one who has attained yoga, the equanimity becomes the means (of Self-Realization).

Eric Liu

If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.

Richard Roberts

It causes an increased risk of birth defects and mental retardation.

Charles E. Wilson

It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Swami Vivekananda

IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for loves sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - love unselfishly for loves sake.

C. S. Lewis

It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Carl Jung

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

Mikhail Saakashvili

Today is the greatest day in the history of Georgia -- this is the day of our dignity, the birth of a new Georgia.

Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Bible Bible

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear (John 4:18).

Lee Warren

We've even gotten a suggestion from some women to have a 'Designing Women' reunion at The Dixie with the cast from the show coming back, talking about the experience and showing old clips. Miss Dixie loved the idea.

Chuck Hill

We think a pretty strong earnings season for the quarter is pretty much cast in stone.

Peerless Price

I think it takes a lot of pressure off me. I can just go out there and just play with a cast of guys like that ... I know I have to earn my stripes, earn playing time, and I'm willing to do that.

Madison Pettis

I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.

Pat Lester

I liked theater, but I was a nurse, a mother, and later a school psychologist. I didn't have time to do this before, and I wanted to include as many people in the cast as possible.

Jim Foglesong

I met Toni, my wife, when we were cast opposite each other in a musical.

Michael Rispoli

If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'

Ted Allen

I know that the single guys on the cast (which is everybody but me), hmm, well a lot more people flirt with you when you're on TV.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Vasily Grossman

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Walt Whitman

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

Margarita Chaves

His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.

John Mortimer

He had his eyes open. We knew he was alive. He knew I was there.

Mark Lye

His eyes light up at night. Outside of that, he's perfect.

Ozzie Guillen

I like what I see. He was throwing a lot of strikes. We will take a better look when the games start in the minor leagues. It's a first-time outing, and we are going to keep our eyes on him.

Shannan Bergen

I'll be bawling my eyes out. They're unique in their own way. The most special group I've ever coached. I'll always remember them.

Jordan Cox

If we turn our spiritual eyes towards the Son, meaning the Son of God, we will see the sparkle of the gems of life.

Eddie Davis

I looked in Kevin Glenn's eyes and I seen him looking at Milt Stegall the whole way and I just knew I had to step up. I stepped in front and made the play and got down so I didn't fumble the ball.

Limas Sweed

I looked in his eyes, and even when we were down, he was confident. Vince took what they gave him.

Rig Veda

Knowledge is also the giver of wealth or rather wealth is the by-product of knowledge.

David Smith

The people that have inherited that money have yet to really prove themselves as givers on the same level.

Granth Sahib

The Great Giver lives; no one dies. O Nanak, those who do not enshrine the Lord within their minds are deluded.

Arianna Huffington

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

Randy Alcorn

God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won’t let you outgive Him.

Martin Scorsese

Just when people think he gives you one thing, ... he gives you another.

Jeffrey Edelman

I think it gives them another way to become more visible.

Steve Sanders

I think it gives me more of a leadership role on the team, because some of the guys know I have a son and they see how I act,

Rebecca Loos

He knows what you want and he gives it to you and it is all about you, not so much about him, so you know that's nice

O. Singh

He judges things to be good, only as long as the Lord gives and he receives.

Latin Proverb

He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another

Drew Gilpin Faust

As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.

Ken Holland

He's got skill, and he gives us depth. He's a guy who could help us.

Avery Cutshaw

He's a team player. He gives everything he's got no matter where he's playing.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Algis Shalna

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

Shay Carl

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Jim Rayfield

I think this play is, in a sense, the father's story. We see him go from a state of happiness - he's content; he has his son; he's okay - to the end, where he is totally lost.

Carl Jung

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William James

The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.

William James

All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

William James

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Richie Stevens

He just needs some time, and hopefully we can give him that time. If I am running strong and winning rounds, then I think that will help out.

Keith Richardson

He keeps switching the names of the owners on the deed,

Lute Olson

He just keeps getting better and better. He has tremendous poise and confidence.

Hank Haney

He just keeps getting better and better and better. I don't think there's a 'there' there.

Lourdes Cowgill

He is resourceful, he is entrepreneurial, and he is engaging, so if he keeps all those talents and on the right track he should be very successful.

Tanya Chaplin

Her performance tonight was spectacular. She just keeps getting better and better.

Curtis Barfield

We sure aren't getting rich, but we're having fun. It keeps us young.

Bryan Robinson

It works for me. It keeps me out of the training room, and that's all I need it to do,

Jim Thorpe

They just keep coming. But that's what keeps me going.

Neal Schon

It just means that no matter what, it just keeps moving. We've had a lot of personnel changes, and we're still here.

Matthew Arnold

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

Marco Basten

I'm satisfied with the result, but not with the way we played,

Will Harris

I'm satisfied with her representation and what Kerr-McGee is doing.

Tyrus Thomas

We're still hungry, we're not satisfied with what we've done. We've got a lot to prove.

Thayer David

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

Dave Williams

We are very satisfied with the new contract.

Willie Randolph

We'll get two out of three and be satisfied with that.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

Mason Cooley

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

William Wycherley

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Rodney Dangerfield

My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.

Warren Jeffs

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

W. C. Fields

Buried my wife the other day. Had to, she died.

William Penn

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Jacob Braude

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

Malcolm X

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

Johnny Carson

Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.

Johnny Cash

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.