Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

William Blake

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

William Gurnall

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

Jonathan Sacks

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

Bible Bible

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Laurence Sterne

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

John Bevere

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Pierre Bayle

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

Baha'u'llah

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.

Dionne Bromfield

I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.

Charles Boucher

It appears that Intel's significant shortfall in Europe is company-specific, although the exact cause of the shortfall is still unclear.

John Berger

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

Michael Vaughan

He just controlled everything in a measured fashion although he obviously had harsh words to say in the sanctuary of the dressing room. His team on the field always appeared to have a huge amount of respect for him.

Russ Sonaty

He likes to be involved although he is over there. They like that he talks to them. It gives them something to work for.

Paula Zahn

He joined the Army and would have gone to the first Gulf War, but it finished before he got there, although he had orders to go, ... He's been in Korea twice and Saudi Arabia and various other places.

Steve Patterson

He is under contract. He has refused to render his services, and so we have not paid him for his services, although we've kept him on his medical insurance.

Steve Cook

Hard work on the training ground paid off tonight, although certain aspects of our play was sloppy. If this was a blip, then it couldn't have come at a better time.

Stephen Richer

Having these three resorts back in business will attract thousands of day trip customers, some of our meetings business, and many tour groups. Although we still will be far short of our previous room inventory and meeting space, we know that the demand to visit our destination is high and that business will take off with the reopening of the Imperial Palace, the Isle of Capri, and the Palace.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Phil Harrison

There are the born teachers who just want to do it. People will do it because they want to put something back into the community. Or they will have a passion for what they do and want other people to share that passion.

Laura Schlessinger

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Jeffrey Kluger

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

Carlo Rubbia

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Solomon Ibn

The light that cometh from her (wisdom) never goeth out

Bible Bible

This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

Bible Bible

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

French Proverb

In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie.

John Cleveland

The marigold, whose courtier's face echoes the sun, and doth unlace her at his rise, at his full stop packs and shuts up her gaudy shop.

William Shakespeare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Cowper

Now let us sing, Long live the king, / And Gilpin, long live he; / And when he next doth ride abroad, / May I be there to see!

Bible Bible

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

William Shakespeare

Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.

Mark Akenside

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

William Shakespeare

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on

Andrew Marvell

he world in all doth but two nations bear, The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere

Jim Gibbs

Jim was a jokester, a great guy and a private pilot. He took flying seriously, that was his passion.

Richard Branson

It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.

Joker Phillips

He's flying around and looking like his old self.

Kevin Finan

I don't fly as much as I'd like to, but it's one of my passions.

Kyle Wright

He is just flying by guys this spring and making plays.

Andrew Walpole

He'll miss the test and fly to the United Kingdom tomorrow to see a specialist. His availability for the remainder of the tour will be reassessed.

Sarah Brightman

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

Glenn Engel

If you're flying a propeller when the other guys have regional jets, you will lose market share, especially in a weaker economy.

David Baugh

I haven't seen anything that was said that he knew that by learning to fly an airplane, one: it would be used to hurt Americans, and two: it would occur in the United States.

William Cullen Bryant

Go forth under the open sky, and listTo Nature's teachings.

Charlton Heston

Go forth and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Josh Parker

I think it's good they're having some dialogue. I wish there was a little more back and forth than the university letting us know what they're doing.

Larry White

I think it's too much. It's an inconvenience. It takes most of your money now to get back and forth to work. There's no mass transit out there to go back and forth to work you have to drive.

Keith Stanfield

Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.

Kathryn Harrison

In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.

Marty Manfredo

If you want to play these are the kinds of things you do. Fortunately I've got a good group of kids who want to learn and are willing to put forth the effort. Hopefully it will pay off for them and the program in the long run.

Sara Gilbert

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.

Louisiana Tech

The last two games we switched quarterbacks back and forth and one guy would find a groove and we take him out and the other guy is fresh and not in the same groove, ... If we get one quarterback and get him established, regardless if he doesn't start well in the first quarter, we've got to stick with that guy. One of them has to find their groove.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Andre Holland

I think that a man should not be shy; you should say what you really think and feel - put it out there.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Monica Crowley

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Satchel Paige

I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.

Ben Stein

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Miranda Cosgrove

Sparks fly, it's like electricity...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Cindy Sheehan

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

Plato

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

Laini Taylor

I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.

Immanuel Kant

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William Wordsworth

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

William Ellery Channing

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Sarah Vowell

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

Pete Vasil

I thought there were opportunities for us, but we had trouble finishing.

Ned Van

I think it was just going to be more trouble than they had anticipated.

Tom Curle

He's getting to the rim, but he's still having trouble elevating, which is frustrating for him.

Wayne Dyer

It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.

Tony Yayo

You know I'm always in trouble.

Warren G. Bennis

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.

Steve Waugh

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.

Carol Moore

I'm going to be in trouble when they go.

Jennifer Wilbanks

I'm doing well. I need to get back to work. I don't want to get into trouble.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.