Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Hopkins

I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,

John Barton

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

Adam Ereli

The EU-3 is comfortable with where things are in the sense that there is a process that has been put in place, and that process should be able to lead to the desired solution.

Nancy Gibbs

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

S. Jay Olshansky

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

Therese of Lisieux

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

Bible Bible

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Ian Reid

As soon as we put together our proposal, which will include what we are going to use the funds for, how we are going to repay it, the desired results and so on, we will go to the Ministry of Finance to have discussions on it. And once they sign off on it, we can then go to the financial institution.

Karl Inderfurth

A trip to India is no longer just a desired - but a required - part of an American president's itinerary.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Larry McReynolds

He (Wallace) has fire in his eyes and wants go out a a winner.

Paul Tagliabue

He was a warrior, a neighbor and a friend ... In the eyes of many he was the greatest football player of all time.

Teller

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Yiddish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth

William Wordsworth

Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . .

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

Margarita Chaves

His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.

Mark Lowe

I went back to the room to study and my nerves were shattered. I handicapped for three hours until my eyes were stinging. They hurt like hell.

Walter Isaacson

I think this problem could be solved in 20 minutes. It's low-hanging fruit and not that expensive.

Ray Anderson

It isn't just the low-hanging fruit we go after.

French Proverb

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at

Robin Gibb

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

Sathya Baba

In order to lead a fruitful and meaningful life, render service to mankind, which will take you nearer to God.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors --to dislodge the worms.

Henry David Thoreau

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

Libba Bray

Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.

Bob Ellis

The fruits of the pastor's labors have been truly appalling.

Sprague Grayden

I was lucky I was raised by parents who gave me a lot of sense of self and a lot of confidence in myself.

Jim Calhoun

Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..

Joseph Zadroga

James gave his life for the city, for this country.

Joyce Majewski

Just look at this watch someone gave to me.

Vin Abene

Jon pitched well. He gave up a two-run homer in the first but he settled down after that and kept us in the game.

Jason Calabrese

Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.

Joe DeSantis

John is the kind of player who can give us something positive or something negative. Tonight he gave something very positive.

Ken Lucas

I think in the long run it will prove to be a good thing for the team and myself that we gave it a week off and let it heal. I hate to miss any game, but I think it was the right thing to do.

Greg Paulus

I actually thought they gave us the timeout. But I'll take J.J. at the line any time.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tyler Perry

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

Tricia Helfer

My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.

Raymond Chandler

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

Sarah Brady

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

Sara Blakely

Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn't do it. I didn't want to risk that.

Tracy Morgan

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

Salma Hayek

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

Whitney Houston

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

Tracee Ellis Ross

This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren't exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.

Keith Morris

More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.

Henrik Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Mike Gold

I've been pleasantly surprised by the credibility, seriousness, and capabilities shown by these entities.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Cassandra Clare

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

Al Groh

He's probably come on a little fast, ... That probably was the pleasant surprise of it.

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Horace

Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Mike Patterson

He just saw the same things in me and him.

Danny Aiello

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

Jim Tressel

I didn't really see it at all. All I saw was there was a big pileup.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

Annika Sorenstam

I come from a little town just like she does, ... So for her to travel all the way from Sweden and live your dream, when I saw that headline, I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.

Mark Roberts

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

Capt. McDonough

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Willa Cather

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Wangari Maathai

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

W. S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

Zac Hanson

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.