Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Wilcox

If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait.

Henry Mayhew

The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim; but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.

James Stephens

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.

Bhagavad Gita

All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquillity. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady.

Bhagavad Gita

They prescribe various specific rites for the attainment of pleasure and power to those who are full of desires, and hold the attainment of heaven as the highest goal of life. The rebirth is their fruit of action.

Bhagavad Gita

Detachment, non-fondness with son, wife, and home; unfailing equanimity upon attainment of the desirable and the undesirable; and / Unswerving devotion to Me by the yoga of exclusivity, love for solitude, distaste for social gossips; and / Steadfastness in knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and the perception of (the omnipresent God as) the object of true knowledge is called knowledge; what is contrary to this is ignorance.

John Abernethy

There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.

Louis D. Brandeis

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Benigno Aquino III

My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

Jim Rich

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Ralph Lauren

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is, ... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

Lois Perrin

This law sends a message contrary to the aloha spirit.

Denise Sposato

It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Confidentiality of customer information is our No. 1 priority.

Tim Curry

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Jean Lacordaire

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Michael McKeon

Any suggestion to the contrary ... is outrageous and wrong.

Barbara Schneider

It isn't just a problem of the employee, it's a workplace problem that requires people to work together to make flex-time a real option that doesn't have negative repercussions with respect to job security and promotion. Rearranging work schedules to make people's lives more reasonable should be a desirable option.

Gore Vidal

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

David Tarantino

For however long the plant operates, we have sufficient room to store things, but that's not the desirable option.

Mark Zandi

It's at the top end of what's desirable for the Fed policy-makers and investors. Inflation is low, but it is rising.

John Tyler Bonner

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

David Richards

When you talk about integrating the two audits - doing it once, rather than twice - that's easier said than done. It's desirable to do it that way, but when you get down in the weeds and try to figure out the specific steps that you're going to coordinate... a lot more has to be thought through. The objectives of the two audits are totally different.

Neal Soss

As long as the economy is growing at such a good pace, it is appropriate and desirable that the FOMC acknowledge that with somewhat higher rates.

Rod Nielsen

Stress is not a desirable state and it may lead to the development of other disease, particularly cardiovascular disease,

Haruhiko Kuroda

as I have always said, it is desirable for dollar-yen rates to trade in a stable manner.

Saint Francis de Sales

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

Ramakrishna

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

John Ortberg

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

Benjamin Haydon

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.

Caroline Kennedy

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

Charles Williams

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Lester B. Pearson

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Charles Spurgeon

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Caitlin Moran

The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

Subhash Chandra

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Yiddish Proverbs

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Samir Geagea

God willing we may be done with this issue before the (March 14) deadline.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Marcello Giordani

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Stephen Jackson

He wants to play with us. He loves his teammates. He has no problem with his teammates. He told me that personally. He wants to come back and play.

Rod Carew

He cared. I love him. I'm going to miss him.

Peggy Fleming

He just loves what he's doing. And that rubs off on his skaters.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Stephanie Mills

I would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.' I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.

Warren E. Burger

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

Walter Cronkite

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Rudolf Steiner

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Jim Johnson

Our objective was to put an end to what we view as infringement of our package designs.

Rob Dyson

Our objective is to win the (ALMS) championship. It's the way we take each race and the way we run the team.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Samuel Beckett

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Salman Rushdie

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

Lamar Odom

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Mark Krikorian

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

Leonardo da Vinci

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Evo Morales

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Henry Bonilla

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

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Richard Holloway

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Richard M. Nixon

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.

Samuel Richardson

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Robert South

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

Robert Pattinson

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Robin McKinley

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Russell Brand

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.

Tricia Helfer

I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The authentic self is the soul made visable.

Sasha Pieterse

If I can go every day of the week, that's great and I'll do it. Usually I can't, so it's about 4 or 5 times a week that I'll go to the gym. I just do cardio and make sure I tone. I love spin class and yoga and I work a lot on my legs and my abs and my arms.

Wayne Dyer

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

Nhat Hanh

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

Nhat Hanh

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Nhat Hanh

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

Nhat Hanh

You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.