Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Thomas

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

Bobby Miller

Homo sapiens! Yuck! You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able to look at your own creations and destiny. You rush off to what isn't instead of what? is. I'm glad I haven't yet evolved and embrace your ways. Signed, Homo Erectus.

Laura Bush

Thaddeus has been a master of sweet creations that have been enjoyed by friends, guests and dignitaries who have visited the White House. The president and I appreciated his service.

Horace Engdahl

I think it is safe to say that 'Soul Mountain' is one of the most remarkable creations of modern literature, not only in Chinese.

Ha-Joon Chang

It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.

Miyavi

It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.

Hugh Roberts

They are not parties in the Western sense, they are creations of the regime,

Kevin Bardsley

It just flooded back to me that he saw God's creations differently than we did, ... He saw the little things.

Robert Gottlieb

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.

Chris Cleave

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

William Shakespeare

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Abba Eban

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Benjamin Franklin

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

Chaz Bono

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Adewale Ogunleye

A team like the Colts, they have the lead most of the time, a big one, so they get to pin their ears back and go. We haven't been playing with a lot of big leads.

Richard Garcia

They are the eyes and ears of the court.

Howard King

You don't show up with answers, you show up with ears and listen.

Silas Lee

It's all between the ears of the listener. Those who are looking to use this as an opportunity to say, 'look, we should not support him,' they're going to use it. Those who are going to say, 'yes, he was speaking what needs to be said,' they're going to look at this as maybe a one time occurrence and sweep it under the rug.

Kathy Murray

We are a true melting pot, and we made it work. It's really important that Moss Point embrace that idea.

John Barrowman

Wherever I am, I will embrace the life and the lifestyle. I've lived in Hollywood before, and we've moved into the old neighbourhood in West Hollywood. I love California.

Pat Haden

Where some people were bemoaning some of these things that surround the program, I think he has embraced them and turned them into positives.

Gretchen Rubin

Embrace good smells. No cost, no calories, no energy, no time - a quick hit of pleasure.

Bruce Pearl

We've tried to do a lot of things this year to embrace the history of Tennessee basketball.

Biz Stone

Embrace your constraints.

Chris Ellis

All of us are going to make an impact. ... I think it's gonna be times two from last season, because a lot of us are going to play a lot more. It's gonna be put on our shoulders a little bit. We embrace that, though. We embraced that from when we first got here.

Guru Singh

They do not serve the True Guru, and they do not embrace love for the Lord s Name.

Steven Aftergood

This administration has embraced secrecy as a right.

Luke Mitchell

Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they can't kill. They've evolved in all these other ways, and they have these special abilities, but they can't kill. It's a very interesting concept. I really like it. I like the idea of it.

Dee Bell

We're more focused on a first group and a second group now. It's really evolved over practice. They know what I expect and what it takes now to compete.

Gary Peterson

It's evolved into something different than the original intent.

Cory Doctorow

This is a fascinating phenomenon that evolved through the unexpected use of technology. It classically illustrates the way people find their own uses for technology.

Joe Solmonese

There were very few people standing up for gay Americans 34 years ago, ... And most who did have evolved even more since.

Jeff Hester

There is no way that you can form iron-60 other than in a massive, evolved star.

Mike Harris

They really have evolved to become these luxury palaces floating on water.

Chris Graves

It was talked about for a number of years, and we finally stopped talking about it and did it ... we mad-scrambled, but it's evolved and we've been learning as we go and having a great time,

Jeff Carlson

People are tough. We're evolved for less food; more exercise; less sleep; less security; more paranoia. The irony is that we're so good at what we do. We strive for more food; less exercise; more sleep; more security; less paranoia - and we've succeeded.

Charles Dickens

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Al Madrigal

I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

Chris Hanson

We want to set the stage to be successful the rest of the season in Arizona. This is an opportunity to see new faces and gain some big meet experience.

Chris Cleave

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Chin-Ning Chu

You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

Edith Wharton

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

David Icke

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.

Barry Bonds

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Edmond Rostand

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

David Douglass

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Audrey Hepburn

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Golda Meir

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness

Scottish Proverb

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight

O. Henry

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence

English 18th Century Proverbs

Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.

Persius

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Benjamin Franklin

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pass. But mark this! You have been saved, and all your friends too, mainly by good fortune, as it is called.

Daniel Alfredsson

Once we killed off my penalties, that gave us a lot of momentum. It's something I shouldn't have done, but I had such good position on St. Louis, there's no way I touched him. Maybe it's not the referee's fault, (St. Louis) dives and fools the referee. We were getting a lot of penalties and I just lost it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

Aiden Wilson Tozer

This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.

Chris Avellone

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Daymond John

The thing about branding is it isn't etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we stamp on a product, a concept or an ideal, but it doesn't last forever. Like anything else, it needs to be nurtured and reinforced, or it will start to fade.

David Brainerd

The Lord help me to press after God forever

Benicio Del Toro

Some roles have been with me forever

Audre Lorde

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

Arthur Rimbaud

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

Arnold Palmer

I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-­ - 3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this part of my Masters career. I would love to go on doing it forever, but I don't have the physical capability to hit the shot the way I would want to hit it. So I'll have to be content to watch.

Liza Minnelli

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

Eric Osmer

When it comes down to it, a rule is a rule. I messed up. But, in a way I'm kind of glad it's all over. There is a sense of closure. We can move on.

Jerry Eaves

What a legacy. It's something that needs to be done. I'm so glad the school is doing it.

Paul Stranz

With the wind the way it was, I'm just glad it didn't go any longer.

Kathlyn McClain

We were in a slump, and we're glad to be out of it.

Darin Strauss

Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'

Mark Stephens

We're getting a lot of people saying we're glad you're back.

Darris Kilgour

We're really glad to have Jason Crosbie back. He's a great leader on and off the floor.

Oscar Robertson

It's just good to be out here, ... I'm just glad to supply these guys.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Farid Abdulkadir

There is no need to hide the reality from the world.

William Davenant

For I must go where lazy PeaceWill hide her drowsy head;And, for the sport of kings, increaseThe number of the dead.

William Davenant

For I must go where lazy Peace Will hide her drowsy head; And, for the sport of kings, increase The number of the dead.

Kevin Murphy

You can't hide anything on the recording so, yeah, it had to be cleaner.

Ira Sachs

it's about what you hide and what you show.

Harold Gould

They're right on you, and when you're traveling in a van, you can hide a lot of stuff in it...and they were serious about it.

Mary McCarthy

They're looking for a place to hide because they're so cold. It could be a pile of anything.

Daniel Breaker

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to shadow a line instead of one player.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Kelly Clark

Unfortunately, it went 9 yards instead of 10.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Kenneth Fisher

The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

Charles Dickens

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

Charles Spurgeon

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.

Charles Spurgeon

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

Alan Watts

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

Alan Watts

The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter...

Alan Watts

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan Bradley

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

Alan Alda

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

Ella Wilcox

Think your life was made for dreaming, nothing more,When God's work lies all unfinished at your door?

Joe Ross

There were so many lies throughout the trial.

Jeff Foster

There were several of them (lies), weren't there?

The Talmud

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Rig Veda

An untruthful person speaks lies and as a result, is short lived.

William Penn

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

James Salter

I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.

Shawn Chacon

I see what lies ahead, ... It's win or go home.

Georges Bernanos

The worst, the most corrupting of lies, are problems poorly stated,

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Alan Greenspan

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

Chris Christie

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

Chiranjeevi

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

Edward Gibbon

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

Earl Wilson

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Billy Sunday

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Edward Kennedy

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

Charles Caleb Colton

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

Charles Caleb Colton

All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.

Charles Dickens

How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

Charles Stross

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Charles Stross

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Charles Stross

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

Charles Stanley

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Marvin Moss

All of us were jacking it up. We got away from what's good. When we get up on people, we rush to put it away.

Nina Simmons

There is not really a way to stop them - if they really, really want to rush the court.

Steve Wilson

A thank-you to all of you who rushed to Kersey and valiantly searched for Sam,