Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bowen

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella

Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Bible Bible

All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.

John Woolman

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

Sathya Baba

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

G. H. Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Neil Strauss

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

William Bartram

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

George Gilder

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

David Robertson

It could come down all at once in the rain storms on Friday, who knows.

Richard Wilbur

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...

Truman Capote

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

Truman Capote

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

Rick Riordan

Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand

William Wordsworth

Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.

William Gibson

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Sarah Rees Brennan

She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

Sarah Palin

Mr. President, when it rains it pours, but most Americans hold their own umbrellas

Mike Massucci

We got some steals and some baskets in transition.

Sherill Baker

We just tried to be the aggressor. We were trying to get some steals to set up our scoring.

Benjamin Franklin

He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong.

James Joyce

Love me. Love my umbrella.

John Green

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

Cassandra Clare

The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Zane Grey

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

Emanuel Celler

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Henry Clay

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Eliza Haywood

those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...

Jane Austen

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

Jane Austen

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Edmund Burke

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Confucius

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Ambrose Bierce

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.