Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Monroe

What I really want to say is that what the world needs is a feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, blacks, Jews, Arabs - we're all brothers!

Chin-Ning Chu

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Mona Sutphen

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Oprah Winfrey

Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

Margaret Atwood

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.