Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

Robert Cormier

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Richard Hooker

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

Richard Whately

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Richelle Mead

It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Richard Baxter

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Richard Baxter

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Richard Baxter

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

William J. Clinton

That all depends on what "is" is.

Scott Hinkel

I wrestled here; I wore the singlet. I have a passion for the sport. This is where I like to be.

Henry Blanco

He just has a passion for the game.

Maya Angelou

Her passion was never spent in public display.

Loui Antonucci

I think that there's a lot of passion with these people.

Flip Saunders

I thought we had terrible energy, terrible passion in the first half. We just seemed very disinterested.

Flip Saunders

I thought we had terrible energy, terrible passion in the first half. Just seemed very much disinterested. Then we picked things up, played with more energy, got the lead.

Rick Clausen

I think it's the ultimate rivalry in the SEC. There's always a little more passion when it comes to this game.

Richard Wilbur

Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.