Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Cruz

We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

Chris Kirkby

We didn't want our wings dropping down and allowing them to kick it out for the three, because that's basically their offense -- to penetrate and kick for the three.

Dean Stoyer

Do we think he has the same value he did two or three years ago? Absolutely. He's certainly has been the cornerstone for our business, lending credibility and brand awareness, allowing us to create a golf company within Nike.

Rob Jeter

At this point in the season, you want to make sure you're competing and that you're fighting for everything and that you're not allowing anything easy. We're making teams work.

David Dooks

Weaker mortgage lending in the first half of 2005 led to annual totals weaker than in 2004, but gross lending and loans approved for house purchase finished the year on an upward trend, after allowing for seasonal factors.

Richard Carmona

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.

Ryan Barrett

China enforces stability from the top down. Allowing everyone to gradually buy into development allows India's stability to take root from the bottom up.

Eliot Spitzer

Mutual funds, who have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, who have made the representation that they will do what's reasonable to stop these trades, and then they take payments for allowing these trades to take place -- they're in deep trouble,

Chris Taylor

My goal was to create the biggest 'theatre of war' experience that the technology would allow. This meant allowing the player to zoom in or out - and when zooming out, I mean all the way out to see the entire map - depending on the situation, and allowing them full-control over every single unit, at any time, at any zoom level.

Greek proverb

The rose's prime lasts one brief hour of morn, That past, I find no rose - only a thorn

Donald Selkin

We've gone up nine days in a row. I think we're probably in for a brief pullback next week, probably in response to the Fed statement.

Jason Robert Brown

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Terry Paulson

When you're dealing with people in a clinical practice, you're dealing with people oftentimes at their lowest moment, when they're in crisis, ... Oftentimes in the business environment, what you're dealing with is a person who is somewhat on autopilot. What you can do in a brief period of time is give them a fresh window to look at their life.

Wendy Murphy

We can't even file a brief unless they reinstate the appeal,

Robert Long

We had a brief correction for a few days with some early tax-selling and some portfolio managers wanting to take profits, but we're back on track today.

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. ""Oh, no,"" I said. ""Disneyland burned down."" He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

Paul Stanley

If it looks like it tomorrow then I'll jump to it. We're not going to evacuate this time, though. We didn't evacuate through Ivan. We did at Dennis, and we're kind of burned out on it. We're just going to stay here and ride it out unless we get to a real-real big (Category) 4.

Billy Jackson

It feels kind of like a death in your family, ... If it burned down, you would have felt better.

Valerie Marcel

There is much more investment in Europe and the Middle East and generally the Muslim world. They are trying to diversify so they don't get caught. Many were burned by 9/11.

Michael Gennaco

I'm hopeful that this maelstrom has burned itself out. But would this happen in two years? There's no reason to be confident that it wouldn't.

Rob Lowe

David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.

John Glover

The most devastating thing was the level of tragedy, with the land and burned up livestock. The fire front at one point was 31 miles wide.

Alan Simpson

They're talking about things that, if I had talked about, they would have burned my humble butt.

Shane Pendley

When you've been burned your always going to have your hand on the pull cord...the right one makes you forget you have the parachute on.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Jesse Jackson

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Deepak Chopra

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Annie Besant

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Robert Lanza

Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

Sri Chinmoy

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

Rollo May

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

John Scalzi

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Roger Penrose

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

Tommy Chong

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Atharva Veda

THE river of human life meanders along, through many a valley, leaps over many a cliff, loses itself in many a marsh and seeks to empty itself in the ocean of Divine Grace; though, what happens is that it falls into the undrinkable expanse of salt.

James E. Faust

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

Lactantius

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

Socrates

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.

Said Nursi

The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.

Henry David Thoreau

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

Muhammad Iqbal

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Sathya Baba

Service is divine - It makes life worthwhile.

Tadao Ando

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Brandon Sanderson

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Ben Okri

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Henry Sokolski

I think it's sort of smoke and mirrors.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Benito Mussolini

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

Jane Goodall

I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

Jan Morris

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

Cesar Millan

Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

Jane Wagner

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

Richard G. Scott

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would immediately facilitate mastering the ability to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Nor do I believe that the Lord will ever allow someone to conceive a pattern that would invariably and immediately open the channels of spiritual communication. We grow when we labor to recognize the guidance of the Holy Ghost as we struggle to communicate our needs to our Father in Heaven in moments of dire need or overflowing gratitude.

Bridget Riley

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Brennan Manning

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.