Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Al Gore

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

Jane Asher

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Allan Bloom

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

Andy Cohen

If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

Aga Khan IV

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our 20th Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors; our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Jeff Francoeur

It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.

Jacqueline Carey

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

Mary Bono

For the past 6 years, it is my privilege and honor to serve as the Representative for California's 45th Congressional district.

Idris Elba

Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

Iyanla Vanzant

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

Immanuel Kant

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Alfred Stieglitz

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.