Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Demme

Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music.

Sean Sutton

It's a tough day because of the emotions of what's transpired.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Viktor E. Frankl

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

Viktor E. Frankl

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor E. Frankl

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Vanna Bonta

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

Susan Wiggs

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

Sophocles

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

Stephen King

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

John Dryden

I am as free as nature first made man.

Tom Williams

However, individuals are free to do what they want.

John MacLeod

He's ... improved his outside jump shot. He's improved his free throws, and he's working on an inside game.

Paul Molitor

I could become a free agent. I'd have to go to an American League team, like the Mets. That sounds funny, doesn't it?

Scott Bamforth

I don't miss free throws. I don't know what I was doing.

Karla Gamble

I'd never had to shoot free throws in a situation like that before. I just went up there and thought about hitting my free throws. I wasn't thinking about anything else.

Red Herring

Really, I've just been inspired this year because it's my time to shine, ... Brandon Free graduated, and I learned a lot from him, so it was just my time to step up and produce.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Duke Ramey

This has been the greatest waste of human resources I've ever seen.

Woody Allen

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Charles Bukowski

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

David McKenzie

We've still got a long way to go ... but I'm happy with my position at this point.

Rig Veda

The real happiness of life is in doing 'karma'.

Aristotle

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

Benjamin Franklin

You may be more happy than Princes, if you will be more virtuous.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Leslie Williams

I'm most happy that my property value will go up.

Iain Dowie

I'm more than happy for Sven to come here,

M. Wolfe

I'm pretty proud of it. There's some other things that I could have done at different times, but overall, I was happy with my performance.

Daniel Ewing

I'm pretty excited. It's a happy moment for myself and my family.

Koren Robinson

I'm just happy, ... Happy that I can get the opportunity to do something I love, that's to play football. When someone tries to take something away from you that you love, it really makes you think about how special it is.

Tom Borrelli

I'm just happy for him, especially after the MAC Tournament. He bounced back well.

Greg Robbins

I'm just really happy about the way the program has expanded from what it was,

Chuck May

I'm just real happy for the kids. This means a lot to them.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Paul Desmond

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Gin Wigmore

I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.

Bret Tuetken

We're not a very big team. Rebounding will be key for us.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Peter F. Hamilton

If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.

Peter Barris

I'd love to see the secondary markets become more widespread in terms of their adoption.

Paddy Ashdown

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

Ovid

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Prince Fielder

I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.

Peter Weir

I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

Mick Jagger

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

Michio Kaku

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

Angelique Kidjo

Don't let misery bring you down.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

John Quincy Adams

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

John Owen

If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

Theodore C. Sorensen

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

Thales

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

Terry Pratchett

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Corey Feldman

I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.

Alice Walker

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."

Alastair Campbell

If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

Albert J. Nock

Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.

Albert Ellis

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

Albert Camus

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Alexander Crummell

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.