Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

Rig Veda

He, who yearns for his goal with a firm mind and soul definitely attains his objective.

Bhagavad Gita

He from whom all beings originate, and by whom all this universe is pervaded; worshipping Him by performing one's natural duty for Him one attains perfection.

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

The one who does all works for Me, and to whom I am the supreme goal, who is my devotee, who has no attachment, and is free from enmity towards any being attains Me, O Arjuna.

Sathya Baba

Where divinity is sought after, one ought always to behave in the spirit of Love, devoid of the slightest trace of hate, envy and anger. When one cultivates the inner look, one attains the conviction of the basic equality of all.

Bhagavad Gita

Smoke, night, the dark lunar fortnight, and the six months of southern solstice of the sun; departing by these paths, the righteous person attains lunar light (or heaven) and reincarnates.

Bhagavad Gita

The yogi who knows all this goes beyond getting the benefits of the study of the Vedas, performance of sacrifices, austerities, and charities, and attains the Supreme eternal abode.

Adrien Brody

I think it proves I can hold my own in a big studio movie, and I can play a leading man without making him a stereotypical leading man. We can be sensitive human beings in this world and be tough guys, too.

Bruce Cutler

He is one of the most repulsive and disgraceful human beings you will ever see.

Jim Calhoun

He is without question one of the toughest human beings I've ever met in my life. He's streetwise and loveable all at the same time.

Muhammad Yunus

All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.

Kate Millett

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Herbie Hancock

What establishes value is something that is going to move humanity forward. If humanity is not in the equation, it's like the planet without any human beings on it.

Margaret Sanger

We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.

Carl Gustav Jung

Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking withing them. It is unfortunately only too real, which is why psychology must insist on the reality of evil and must reject any definition that regards it as insignificant or actually non-existent.

Steven Chercover

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser. But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

John King

We feel it?s our duty to do it because it?s God?s work.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

William Evans

We must educate these kids, and it is our duty as a nation to do so.

Mark Koenig

He was involved before, but he took on a whole new duty.

Jim Davis

He had the sense of duty of comradeship with the people he'd been training with, and felt he wanted to go with them.

Harvey Rosenfield

He has disgraced his office. He has breached his duty to the people of California.

Tammy Loew

I think it is perfectly natural for people to want to take a break.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Tori Amos

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

Rebecca Solnit

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

Sam Trammell

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Van Morrison

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

Shania Twain

I've been performing my whole life.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Dave Henderson

Sand sculpting is a performing art. Just like a play when the show is over, all we have is a memory.

Carter Burwell

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

Yoko Ono

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

Friedrich Schiller

The universe is a thought of God.

Louis Pasteur

The universe is asymmetric.

James Cook

Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

Lee Smolin

There is nothing outside the universe

Arnold Bennett

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

John F. Kennedy

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.