Famous Quotes & Sayings

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Siddha Nagarjuna

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

Adrian Edmondson

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Abdallah II of Jordan

We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Mary Lou Retton

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Jacques Lacan

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Laura Esquivel

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Johnny Evers

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

John Yoo

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

John Churton Collins

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Jim Calhoun

You can?t predict this thing ... two, three, four all gone. How do you predict these things? The whole idea that No. 1 gets the easy route ... there are no easy routes. Those teams at 16 are really good, and they have incredible desire to win. By the time you get to 8-9, you?re facing really good teams.

Alison Nordstrom

These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household.