Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Ayn Rand

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

Brian Aldiss

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

Jamie Dimon

Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.

Ben Gibbard

There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again."

Carey Mulligan

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Cameron Diaz

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

Carrot Top

I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'

Carson McCullers

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

Bhagavad Gita

A Self-realized person who is free from lust and anger, and who has subdued the mind and senses easily attains nirvana.

Arab Proverb

A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day

Alan Edelman

People came and there was a lot of shouting, anger and frustration. Based on the input that came out of the town hall meeting, we created a task force and totally transformed the (singles) program. It's now called the Young Professional Initiative.

Douglas Alexander

Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

Bhagavad Gita

Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.

Michael Clarke

Dennis was very easy to work with. He was a church man. He was at church all the time, was available as needed. I found he had a very pleasant personality. I never saw any kind of anger or rage.

Mike Simpson

And then there is anger that pops out. 'Why did my son or daughter do this to me? We hear that a lot. So we try to point out that there were probably things going on in the mind of the deceased person that they did not know about and neither did the person that took their own life. There is a just complexity there that no one can understand.

Steve Schmidt

Apparently feeling that Kerry had not emanated enough negativity while on his pessimism and misery tour this week, the Kerry campaign e-mail asked contributors to give at the level best reflecting their anger at the president. Sounds like a fun group to be around.

Aristotle

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.

Michael Ignatieff

A society is not a market. It is a political community.

Pius Ncube

President Mugabe is deliberately starving his people. They are doing this for political motivation,

Evo Morales

This is a political and social triumph as well as a union triumph and shows that our struggle has not been in vain.

Howell Raines

All Alabamians benefited from the vigorous political reporting in which the Post-Herald specialized for many years,

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.