Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

Samuel Johnson

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Zhuangzi

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

Voltaire

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Rick Riordan

Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

Steve Vai

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

William Hazlitt

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Zygmunt Bauman

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Zig Ziglar

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.

Sandra Bernhard

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

Joseph Addison

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Ken Curtis

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

Louise Penny

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

Rick Friesen

We research that, and if we didn't run it we think we'd be offending those viewers.

John Ruskin

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

Mike Scully

I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.

James E. Faust

May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Raymond Chandler

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.