Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Alanis Morissette

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

Al Pacino

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

Al Pacino

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

Al Jarreau

I think a singer is an athlete. I've always tried to stay fit. Until my knee said, "Uh-uh," I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don't like walking a lot, but I'll push them.

Chris Cleave

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

Chris Cleave

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

Ed Asner

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Barry Bonds

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

Joe Donzelli

We are a district that's growing by leaps and bounds. Not that our administration is growing a lot, but we'll need room as the district continues to grow.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Peter Cardillo

There is no question that the State of the Union message last night was very strong and very positive. Obviously the economy continues to do very well. Inflation is low and interest rates are still very low.

Jeremy Stretch

We're still going to get Japanese rates at zero for some time yet. The Fed continues to underpin the view that more rate hikes are highly probable, and yield premiums favor the dollar in the short term.

Michael Dell

We're seeing our Internet sales roughly double or triple every year, ... We were at $18 million a day in the first quarter. It continues to grow. It was 30 percent (of total sales). We think it goes to 50 percent, then to 70 and 80 percent.

Paul Olson

We're seeing a really healthy market right now. I do know our listing inventory continues to grow and even though that is happening, our market time has been stable for three months.

Joe Schwieterman

United had suggested that it was on a glide path to emerging from bankruptcy. This suggests there is more turbulence ahead. This continues to dog United.

Michael Hogan

As we focus on the goals of our strategic plan, rankings play a role in gauging our progress. Though some programs have gained in these rankings and others have dropped, it's the long list of graduate programs in which we excel that continues to make me proud.

Dana Perino

Absolutely, asbestos litigation reform is a high priority and we are pleased that the legislation continues to move forward in the Senate.

Ann Veneman

A whole generation has never known a world free of HIV and Aids, yet the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the scale of the response so far.

P. Herbert

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two

Charles Lada

This new planet may just be the tip of the iceberg. Red dwarfs may be a fertile new hunting ground for finding planets, including ones similar in mass to the earth.

John Challenger

The places where it's really going to hit is government and teachers. Governments are going to be unable to pay for the promises they've made. Pensions for teachers and government workers just dwarf what we see in the private sector.

Richard C. Armitage

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

Robert Burton

I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Yiddish Proverb

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs doesn't make you a giant

Yiddish Proverb

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant

David Spears

That's a huge project. This one will dwarf that, in terms of scope, impact and right of way.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

Edward Hirsch

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Ray Johnson

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Neil Armstrong

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

Beth Moore

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Ron Russell

This movement is like a sleeping giant that has awakened. Some people have called this the next civil-rights movement.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.

Mike Crosthwaite

It really was just one giant publicity stunt to promote the resort.

David Starr

They're making them more like the trucks. The trucks push a giant hole in the air, and we can really race each other. That's what NASCAR wants with this car.

Michelle Paver

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

Michael Hudson

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

Inaki Saez

Greece are very comfortable playing at 0-0 and when they're 1-0 up and we have to be careful,

Ken Bacon

He anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.

Julia Gillard

I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

Marguerite Dalianes

It's personal attention, seeing Greece from the inside out.

Charles Dickens

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Alan Watts

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

Alan Ball

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

Edith Piaf

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

August Wilson

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible....

Deborah Harkness

Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,

Deb Caletti

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Indian Proverb

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Ahmed Zewail

Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material - the implications are just unbelievable.

Paul Watson

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

Anthony Bourdain

I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers.

Charles Saatchi

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

Sylvia Plath

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Juan Enriquez

If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules.

Oleg Vasiliev

If you were able to manipulate the 6.0 system, you can manipulate this, as well.

Denis Villeneuve

I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.

Sarah Kane

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Alan Colmes

People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.

Alan Cooper

A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.

Pat Buchanan

programmed and scripted to stay away from controversy.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Atom Egoyan

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

With 'Mumbai Calling,' I was surprised it was ITV that went for it because it didn't traditionally seem like the kind of programme they would make.

Christopher Monckton

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

Cynthia Carey

We've been running a captive-breeding programme with the boreal toad ( Bufo boreas ) since 1995,

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Rod Page

He's probably the smallest individual, other than the consumer.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.