Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Georg Brandes

The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.

William Ellery Channing

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

W. S. Merwin

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

Rudyard Kipling

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

Virginia Woolf

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

Vince Flynn

Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.

Samuel Johnson

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

James Anthony Froude

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dorothy Hamill

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

Dutch Ruppersberger

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Dalai Lama

The world will be changed by western women.

Dalai Lama

We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.

Dalai Lama

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Dalai Lama

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

Thomas Jones

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

Sylvia Plath

Death may whiten in sun or out of it.

Stephen Hawking

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.

Rajneesh

Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

Michael Morpurgo

We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

Norman Cousins

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

John von Neumann

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

John Philpot Curran

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

Nora Roberts

Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.