Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

Bible Bible

We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed

Richard Wright

We really wanted to play hard because of Clay after he got injured. And everybody really took it personal because he's the leader of our defense.

Andy Roddick

I felt pretty good coming off of last weekend. The transition coming off grass last week to clay was pretty evident in this match but I thought if I could get through this one I'd be all right.

Nat Cole

He got it, man, ... Clay understands the music. I've been fortunate in my career. But it's a tough fight out there by yourself.

Victor Hanescu

Until now I wasn't used to playing on hard courts, ... We don't have courts like this in Romania, we only have clay courts, and I don't know, this year I've started to play better and better on this kind of court, so I am feeling confident now and I am looking forward for the next matches and also for the US Open.

Bruce Lee

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Barbara Sher

Time is clay; make something.

Adam Clarke

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

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.

Yolanda Adams

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

Imani Hakim

I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'

Gloria Gaither

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Gladys Knight

I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Yanni

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Isabella Bird

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Gail Carson Levine

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Denise Morrison

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

Jane Fonda

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

Gail Porter

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

Frank Sinatra

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

Neil Gaiman

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Homer

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

Pablo Neruda

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

Cervantes Saavedra

All music jars when the soul is out of tune

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Mark Amdahl

Waubay is the only team we never full-court pressed this year. Otherwise, we get teams to have 25 to 30 turnovers.

Rena Sofer

For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.

Ann Freeman

There is no sound for a moment, no breathing. And then a muffled scream, like she has pressed something to her mouth.

Pamela Holloway

They pressed us very well. We just didn't keep our composure.

William McArthur

It's not the pristine world that you see on Star Trek, where you see the neatly pressed uniforms, ... What we have is perhaps, from a storage and organization standpoint, is well-managed chaos.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Camille Paglia

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

William Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Bryant H. McGill

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Bryant H. McGill

We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

Benjamin Franklin

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Brother Lawrence

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

Edmund Burke

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

D. A. Carson

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

Donald Sutherland

We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.