Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

Cesar Pelli

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

Matt Rosoff

There might be an executive departure that we haven't heard of yet.

Benjamin Disraeli

Departure should be sudden.

Coco Chanel

Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.

Portuguese Proverb

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure

Dave Johnston

We just wanted to all work together and collaborate, and that was the main impetus informing the record. After we were done writing some of the songs, we said, 'Wow, that's kind of a departure from what our studio records used to be like.' It ended up being real interesting. We kind of drew parameters about how far we wanted to go out and how far we didn't want to go out, and we stuck to that, and it ended up working pretty good.

Albert Schweitzer

Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

Robert Frost

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Spurgeon

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

Charles Spurgeon

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Alan Watts

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

Alan Moore

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Alan Bennett

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Diablo Cody

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Diablo Cody

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

Denis Waitley

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

Bill Nighy

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Cass McCombs

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

Alan Kay

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Charlie Haas

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

Bernard of Clairvaux

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.