Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

John Banville

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

Michael Sullivan

What's difficult about cleaning blinds at home is that it's very messy.

Bob Hoffman

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.

Bronson Arroyo

Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. Obviously, Manny might be one of those guys when he's 50 years old he might be in his house with all the blinds shut and looking out and the CIA is after him. You don't know, man. You don't know what's going on his head.

Malcolm X

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

William Butler Yeats

I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night.

Tambra Flint

He's a gift from God. He's spared for a reason, and I'm really grateful.

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. He has a lot of gifts others don't have.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Francis Donald

Humility is the river through which all other gifts of grace flow.

Jack Sheehan

We can get nice gifts for the kids.

Ken Carter

We feel it's a gift from God, not just from Jack.

Cardinal Ratzinger

In this sense, we can't calmly sit down and say, 'Well, there's no promise of large numbers; success isn't one of the names of God; we've done our part, and we'll see who comes and who doesn't.' This inner restlessness that comes from knowing we have a gift that is meant for humanity must always be present in the Church.

Tommy Burns

I just planted my gift of good size in good soil and it blossomed like a spring flower,

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. He has a lot of gifts others don't have.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Francis Donald

Humility is the river through which all other gifts of grace flow.

Jack Sheehan

We can get nice gifts for the kids.

Ann Kaplan

These are large research institutions, and a lot of these very big gifts go toward supplying infrastructure for, and paying for things like, medical research.

Don Jr.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

Myles Munroe

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

Noam Chomsky

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Renee Fitzgerald

This has been a really big job but very fulfilling. I may not have all my gifts wrapped for my kids or my house clean, but I have memories that will last forever.

Anton LaVey

I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

Robert Cormier

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Richard Hooker

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

Richard Whately

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Rex Reed

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Rebecca West

Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.

Russell Lynes

The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

Russell Lynes

Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.