Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Makepeace Thackeray

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Gordon Lightfoot

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

Benjamin Franklin

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Benjamin Franklin

He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.

Abraham Lincoln

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Jeremy Taylor

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Robbie Amell

Everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Richard Hofstadter

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Richard Benjamin

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

Truman Capote

I remember things the way they should have been.

William S. Burroughs

We should exterminate all rational thought.

Vinnie Jones

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

Woodrow Wilson

We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.

William Shatner

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William J. Clinton

People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.

Miranda Kerr

I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

Michael Garner

He loved to ski barefoot and enjoyed making his own skis. He would soak boards in water, and put them on blocks. Then he would drive his model A car up on them and let it sit while they dried. It would form a curve in them. He loved the outdoors.

John Whittier

Ah, that I were free again! Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay

John Whittier

Ah, that I were free again! Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay

Dan Dakich

You watch him walk and it's like he's walking barefoot on glass.

Angelina Jolie

And barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. Because I feel like me. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody just loves you, and when you make somebody happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.

Theo Brown

We heard gunshots. We could see people moving barefoot through the water, with all they could carry, just panicked. It was mayhem.

Bunker Roy

You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism.

Zola Budd

I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.