Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paramahansa Yogananda

The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

Toll Holdings

Toll has reviewed the ASX release made by Patrick Corporation today in relation to its expectation of Pacific National results for the six months to December 31, 2005, and considers this release to be premature and unconfirmed.

Orison Swett Marden

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

Robert Webb

One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.

Ed Laudano

Robin considers that crows are a fiery mixture of intelligence, tenacity and spirit poured into a frail body.

Ed Laudano

Robin considers herself an explorer whose discoveries are in the lines of a leaf or the turn of a cheekbone.

Jeff Daniels

He's a well-intentioned guy. He tries to do right by his kids - he considers himself a victim here,

Mark Leno

The only thing that could come to mind is that he's politically pandering to the far right, which has been demanding that he make a statement, ... I'd like to take her at her word that he only considers the policy implications, which means there's no need to make such a hurried decision.

Gerard Daffy

We took $10,000 on the Crows at $4.50, another $5000 at $4.30, and a steady stream of money since has forced them into $4.20 now.

Mike Stephenson

Since January 1, we've found four dead crows that tested positive for West Nile.

Irish Sayings

As the old cock crows the young cock learns

Dan Hawkins

(Guy) has a lot of energy, a lot of passion. He's a good coach. He'll get 'em lined up, get 'em playing hard. He's a fiery guy, and he's a very good X-and-O guy.

Christian Bale

What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.

Tony MacAulay

He wanted to pull himself. I was not going to him let him do that. He is a fiery guy, a passionate guy. Every one is going to get emotional. He can learn from it. We can't quit. We have to play these guys six more times.

John Milton

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, / Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

Walter Mondale

At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn't take us with him

Rob Sims

It will be very fiery and competitive. Troy's personality is like that.

Margaret MacDonald

A fiery trial which is to try us.

Rhett Bomar

I'm a competitor. I'm a fiery guy. I like to wing it around when I go in there. When I go in there, I'm just going to have fun and everybody's going to see the way I play.

Mike Garland

I'm a fiery kind of guy; I wear my heart on my sleeve. My players needed to see that. They had to realize how much I wanted them to win this game.

Rachel Roberts

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

Laurie Garrett

'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

Blanche Lincoln

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Alexander McCall Smith

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Morag Joss

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

Kate Bush

I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'

Sara Teasdale

Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass.

Joel Hirschhorn

She's 64 years old. She's a frail woman. I think she's in a state of shock, understandably so.

Sylvia Plath

One soul passes through the other, frail as smokeAnd utterly ignorant of the way it took.

Curt Miller

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Elizabeth Hurley

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Arthur Helps

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Adam Savage

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Annie Besant

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Annie Dillard

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

John Wilkinson

If we all work together, we'll have a sustaining mixture for all of us to have.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Ring Lardner

He give her a look that you could of poured on a waffle

Marcia Gay Harden

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

Steve Elkington

It was a romp from the start. We poured it on and poured it on.

Mark Fox

I poured a sidewalk. I walked through it. That wasn't very smart.

Carl Icahn

I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

Ali Smith

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Kevin Reilly

Those two really clicked. When we sat down and Robinson started telling his story, we just could see it. We could see the show.

Kevin Warsh

I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

Claude Rains

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

Ned Yost

I tried to set Robin up as much as I could.

Maurice Gibb

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

Julie Kagawa

Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

Robin McKinley

Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

C. S. Lewis

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

C. S. Lewis

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

Carrie Newcomer

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

Carl Sagan

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.

Aron Ralston

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

Bill Vaughan

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Bill Blass

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.

Tom Atkins

We have a lot of spirited discussions. We need to be able to have these discussions, and after that we need to get along.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Hal Sparks

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

Chris Murray

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

Lawrence Bossidy

I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.

Sarah MacLean

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon