Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Marguerite Gardiner

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

Theodor Mommsen

We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.

Noah Feldman

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.

Claire Tomalin

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

John Ashcroft

In a region of unmatched historical heritage ... there is a circumstance where the restoration of these hallmarks of antiquity can draw tourists, artists, scientists, business individuals, historians,

Simon Schama

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too.

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Rick Warren

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

Rodney Stark

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

Joshua A. Norton

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Glen Cook

We're coordinating with local churches to deliver this stuff and get it out to people who need it.

Barry Lynn

I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Bruno

I also encourage our borough's businesses, churches and synagogues to replicate their wonderful efforts after the tsunami to now do what they can to support victims of what has been described as one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history.

Rev. Donaldson

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

Jim Wallis

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

Gallagher

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

Zinedine Zidane

My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.

William Cullen Bryant

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

Zubin Mehta

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

Chris Bohjalian

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Walter Kirn

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

Francis G. Slay

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.

Robert Sullivan

The alternative is to take what are frankly some of the neediest people in the city and turn them out into the street.

Steve Owens

That will save the city hundred of thousands of dollars over the life of the loan, plus the closing costs.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

David Bradford

That was a terrible thing he did in his early 20s and he's been very upfront that he's made some serious mistakes,

Mack Brown

That was a killer. It was early enough in the game that it shouldn't have been so big.

Jane Soepardi

We have already made a plan to hold another round early next year, maybe at the end of January or early February.

Rob Keck

We need to hook them on hunting at an early age, so they become appreciative of the hunting tradition. This will also increase hunter retention and ensure the future of conservation remains strong.

Ron Wilson

We just didn't have the energy level we needed to do the job and it was pretty obvious early on. The only thing I was hoping for was their energy level would sink because it was their third game in four nights, too.

Jonathan Galassi

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

Jonathan Galassi

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

Mary Szybist

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Monica Crowley

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

Sylvia Earle

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

Susan Minot

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Stephen Parker

No one respected language more than Nabokov, ... it's such a great work is because it has such great depth. ... It's endlessly revealing. And that's what the finest fiction should be.

Steve James

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

Alana Stewart

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

Idina Menzel

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

Warren Giles

I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

Bashar al-Assad

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

Danielle Steel

My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

Denis Villeneuve

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.

Neon Hitch

I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

Bill Vaughan

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Hal Rogers

the American people have a right to know what happened in preparation for and immediately following the storm.

Ruud Lubbers

The Americans wished to follow and watch Khan to get more information,

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Michael Greco

The ABA does not, and we will not, protect the interests of any political party or faction, nor the interests of any ideological or interest group.

Victor LaValle

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Guillermo Ortiz

Parent banks' stakeholders are not necessarily the same as those of their subsidiaries. Moreover, their interests may diverge, especially during a crisis.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

John Tyler Bonner

My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Thierry Henry

I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Imelda May

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Idina Menzel

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

Ian Mckellen

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Irwin Thomas

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

Indiana Evans

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gaines Adams

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

Randy Cunneyworth

We have nowhere to go but up at this point.

Russell Robinson

We have to refocus. There's nowhere to go but up.

David Gest

Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she's violent. And I was stunned.

Jack Falahee

If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

Alan Paton

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Lennon Parham

There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

Alan Woods

With nowhere to smoke in the pub or the office, smokers are nipping outside for a cigarette.

Norman Foster

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

Neil Marshall

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Mike Fratello

We don't have the rich tradition that some other teams have.

Craig Roberts

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

Elliott Sadler

I feel like going to Richmond there's only one thing we can do and that's go to try and win the race,

Josh Billings

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

William Shakespeare

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

William Shakespeare

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

William Shakespeare

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond...

William Shakespeare

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

William Shakespeare

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

William Shakespeare

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

C. Wright Mills

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

Arnon Goldfinger

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Steve Howard

We've got some things started I'd like to see completed. A lot of it is infrastructure in town I'd like to see upgraded.

Zona Jones

I think I was the only one in town that day when the show was announced.

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Keith Smith

I don't think it's appropriate on a town ballot.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.