Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Barney Frank

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Parry Young

The problem now is that contribution rates are going up and that's what's putting these (government) budgets in a bind around the country. Most of these governments are very labor intensive and that's a big hit.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

Dan Kirkby

We're delighted parents will be able to voice their views, and make a binding decision one way or the other. Should they come, we can guarantee London will give them the warmest of welcomes.

Gary Bass

I hate we put the defense in a bind like we did. The opportunities were there. We just failed to punch it in.

Eva Nogales

What we were able to do is compare the binding site of both the viral RNA and the cells' cap binding protein on a factor that is common to both mechanisms in eIF3. The binding cap is one of the complexes required by the cell, but not required by the virus. For translations, this cup binding protein has to interact with the eIF3.

Khalil Gibran

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Christopher Dixon

The overall sector is being destroyed in the wake of Omnicom.

David H. Murdock

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

The Talmud

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world

Johnny Vegas

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

Bhagavad Gita

We have been told, O Krishna, that people whose family traditions are destroyed necessarily dwell in hell for a long time.

Conrad Black

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

Lee Baerlocher

Unfortunately, when we run out of room, some of the sentimental items without monetary value, (such as) letters or personal papers, are shredded. We keep them as long as we can and we run things past the historical society before they are destroyed to rule out historical significance.

Brandon Darby

The people that own this home their relatives own all of these homes and have owned these homes for generations, now some of these homes are destroyed but some of them are not destroyed, some of them need to be repaired.

Allison Dobson

What we are talking about is 400,000 embryos that are going to be destroyed as medical waste.

Brad Goreski

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

Carrie Newcomer

Never doubt or question the power of love or one woman with a shovel.

Carrie Underwood

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

Antoine Rivarol

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Bertrand Russell

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

Ryan Sanchez

That was a tough one, no doubt about it. Afterwards, I told the kids to just keep their heads up. We have to move on.

David Hawkins

We need to increase capacity, there's no doubt about that,

Joe Bryant

We just didn't make the right decisions. We missed two or three point-blank shots. Could we have won the game? No doubt about it. They can be beaten.

Ray Winstone

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

Clint Hurdle

We have worked hard this year to get better. That has started to happen and we want (the players) to reap the fruits of their hard work.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

Michael Chertoff

We're now starting to see the fruits of seeds that were harvested when we started talking about this strategy a year or so ago.

William C. Bryant

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Adrian Rogers

The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

Rabindranath Tagore

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with out fruits with joy.

David Hawkins

I think we're starting to see the fruits of our investments,

Alex Nogales

We're seeing the fruits of our labor. We've been pushing for this for so long.

O. Singh

One who serves the Lord obtains the fruits of his rewards, all of his hunger is satisfied. Nanak is a sacrifice to those, who night and day, meditate within their hearts on the Name of the Lord.

William Shakespeare

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

David Schwimmer

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

Chogyam Trungpa

The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

Beyonce Knowles

What goes around comes back around.

Carl Jung

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

Bill Maher

If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane.

Bjorn Lomborg

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

Cheech Marin

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

Eckhart Tolle

Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.