Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Burnside

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

Mary Quant

In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.

Nick Harkaway

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

Lloyd Axworthy

Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons.

Jim Calhoun

I have said since the beginning of this process that we should never be in the business of abandoning young men who have made a mistake and I am glad that we will not be doing that,

Nigel Pickard

I hope this investment dismisses the idea that ITV is abandoning its heritage.

Wu Dawei

The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning at an early date to the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and to IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) safeguards.

O. J. Simpson

This is not about abandoning one business and replacing it with another,

Bhagavad Gita

A Karma-yogi, abandoning the fruit of work, attains Supreme Bliss while others, who are attached to the fruits of work, become bound by selfish work.

Matteo Renzi

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Philip Treacy

Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.

John Boles

He's attached to the strike zone. His stuff stays in the zone. It's fun to watch, because he gets the defense involved. With him, he has deception to his delivery.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.

Jessica Hecht

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

Eric Bruntlett

I'm not that attached to it, I guess.

Mike Summers

I looked down at my key ring, and she had attached the Proverbs 31 heart bauble from her purse.

Bhagavad Gita

The evil doers, the ignorant, the lowest persons who are attached to demonic nature, and whose intellect has been taken away by Maya do not worship or seek Me.

Bruce Bochy

It's not an all-important thing to us. But we certainly didn't want to go into the postseason with below a .500 record. We didn't want that stigma attached to us.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Josiah Royce

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

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.

Sathya Baba

One who is full of love attains The states of Oneness with Him.

Bhagavad Gita

One who finds happiness with the Self, who rejoices the Self within, and who is illuminated by the Self-knowledge; such a yogi attains supreme nirvana.

Granth Sahib

One who believes in the Name of the Infinite Lord, attains the Court of the Lord. I humbly bow to the Creator Lord; I am a minstrel singing His Praises.

Bhagavad Gita

One who abandons all desires and becomes free from longing and the feeling of 'I' and 'my' attains peace.

Edie Bailey

If you've never danced in the dark with your eyes closed you don't know what you are missing! It's a kind of bliss in a way you can only experience by trying it yourself! Give it a whirl...

Thomas Gray

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints not of woe

Joseph Campbell

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls

Granth Sahib

Through devotional worship of the Lord, liberation and bliss are obtained.

Travis Bradberry

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

Granth Sahib

Eternal celestial bliss comes through the Guru's Teachings, by meditating continually on the Lord, Har, Har.

William Wordsworth

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven!

Sathya Baba

What is heard has to be pondered over. What is pondered over has to be put into practice. It is only when all three are accomplished that the realization of Bliss can be attained.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together

Sophie Hannah

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Garry Trudeau

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

Mike Reynolds

I think the out of bounds play gave us the momentum.

Barry Hyman

I think it's strictly short term. The market is just range bound with trading opportunities. It's all sentiment right now because fundamentals are just not there.

Tom Malinowski

It is illogical for companies to say they are expanding the boundaries of freedom in China if they strip their product of the very qualities that make it a force for greater freedom. These companies must protect the integrity of the product they are providing, or that product will no longer be the Internet as we know it, and will no longer have the impact on society we all wish to see.

E. B. White

He is not bound by any timeline, ... He's going to be extremely prudent, deliberate and pragmatic in his decision.

Alex McLeish

He had a great game. His energy is boundless and he snaps into tackles. He is a brilliant inspiration and example to his team mates.

Tracy Morgan

When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.

Walter Isaacson

I think this problem could be solved in 20 minutes. It's low-hanging fruit and not that expensive.

Ray Anderson

It isn't just the low-hanging fruit we go after.

French Proverb

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at

Robin Gibb

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

Sathya Baba

In order to lead a fruitful and meaningful life, render service to mankind, which will take you nearer to God.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors --to dislodge the worms.

Henry David Thoreau

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

Libba Bray

Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.

Bob Ellis

The fruits of the pastor's labors have been truly appalling.

Bob Ellis

The fruits of the pastor's labors have been truly appalling.

Christopher Meeker

They've been putting a ton of money into their marketing and we're starting to see the fruits of that spending.

Rod Graves

He planted the seeds for that, and I think that we'll see the fruits of that a lot more next season. By having players like him that have been in winning situations, they have a lot to offer in terms of helping your younger players grow.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Richard Dawkins

What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.

Richard Dawkins

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Roz Chast

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Rose Macaulay

How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.