Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Georg Christoph

To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Granth Sahib

God Himself acts, and causes others to act; everything is in His Hands. He Himself bestows life and death; He is with us, within and beyond. Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of God, the Master of all hearts.

John Updike

Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.

quran quran

He was naught but a servant on whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an example for the children of Israel.

Lord Melbourne

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Kenneth Oppel

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.

Paramahansa Yogananda

To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

Ann Voskamp

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Evel Knievel

Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.

Elizabeth Warren

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.

Francois Arnaud

As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always hated making of featurettes and special features on DVDs. I think it breaks the spell.

Marla Maples

Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

Tim Sampson

We have a great relationship with Rhodes for teacher recruitment when we're hiring for 2006 and four more years to come. Our program is so challenging it's not for every teacher when they teach 7:30 to 5 weekdays and three Saturdays a month with no long summer breaks like at other public schools.

Les Carter

We've had four tournaments this year, and, if we just have a couple breaks go our way, we'd be qualified for state already. We've been four or five strokes out every time, and that's not much when you have five golfers.

Jim Calhoun

We're not a team that breaks you down off the dribble. We have to do it in other ways, on the full-court break or with our power game inside. (Wednesday), South Florida took us out of what we should have run. We stopped setting screens, stopped doing some of the things we're capable of doing.

Jimmy Brown

We're really happy. It's tough to come to Camden and win. They're a well-coached team and they play hard, and tonight the breaks went our way and we were able to come out on top.

Steve Hansen

I think the terms are pretty favorable for us. The lease doesn't kick in for one year from now.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Bill Richardson

I think it is important that we get a favorable vote. I think it is doable. If we don't ... get approval, and we do go, we're going to lose some international prestige.

Jamie Jackson

We've generally become favorable of shorter-dated (agencies) inside of five years as of December. Spreads widened out, more so in the front of curve.

Gene Green

We're seeing more practices with multiple locations. ... Interest rates have been favorable for ownership.

Jose Rizal

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

Ralph Hake

Our sales growth in the quarter reflected the Amana acquisition and strong sales of higher-margin major appliances, ... That favorable sales mix improved operating income.

Christoph Rieger

Recent numbers have been very favorable for euro-zone growth. We may see a small grind higher in yields.

John Challenger

It is a favorable sign that retailers have not joined in the job-cutting spree,

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Joseph Estrada

Why would they include me in that mess? I know nothing about issues involving him,

Chris Ahearn

We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.

Chris Ahearn

We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means, ... What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.

Luis Aragones

But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch.

Stella Young

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Raza Rabbani

I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

Charlie Higley

I agree, that since this has come up, it would have been appropriate to include more disclosure.

Tara VanDerveer

Ideally, I'd like to have an eight-or-nine player rotation, and I'd like to include another perimeter contributor.

Wesley Hill

We have two options. We could give them the money or we could support or back a loan for them.

Ben Bernanke

All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

Stuart Pearce

I enquired about getting Shaun back on loan but they said 'no', I don't think they want him to go anywhere.

Peter Jackson

He is still on loan for another week and we will look to get something sorted out around then.

Mark Cuban

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Jerry Thompson

We would put a deposit in to secure the loan. To me, that takes us out of the loan business.

Thane Bublitz

Over the longer-term, Countrywide is well positioned. There is too much loan production capacity. The servicing portfolio should offset that as originations slow.

Linda Hilton

It is legalized loan sharking at its worst.

Tony Pulis

I wouldn't be surprised if Preston signed somebody this week. They've got the money to go out and spend a loan fee.

Gene Smith

Much of what they do is mandated. They then take the mandates and massage them to meet the needs of this community.

Ted Levy

That just mandates that they take this move.

Eric Hoffer

We can see through others only when we see through ourselves

Manoj Bhargava

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

Mickey Loomis

You kind of feel like a derelict after a while, wearing the same shirt every other day. Through all this, no one is complaining. Everyone sees the plight of others . . . and we know we're fortunate. We have incomes.

Mary Lambert

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

Maurizio Margaglio

We are in front, and the others must do better.

Dolores Smitley

I was the one who was always telling the others how to do things because I had more experience.

Richard Gentles

We received a tremendous response, so many good-hearted people reaching out. We have hundreds of others that still need homes.

George Curry

We have to plead our own cause. Too long others have spoken for us.

John Cornyn

I have made a proposal, and others have made proposals, and we will work out the differences,

Ofer Lefler

They won't get any special privileges just because they were elected.

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.