Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Blaise Pascal

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Blaise Pascal

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Viviana Diaz

The world has been deceived because he is obviously not as ill as we were made to believe.

Flannery O'Connor

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

Robert Anton Wilson

A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.

Bible Bible

But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

E. B. White

What would Jesus drive? A Tahoe so he could get up to eight of his disciples inside and tow the rest in a trailer behind.

Scott Sullivan

As CFO at WorldCom I participated with other members of WorldCom to conspire to paint a false and misleading picture of WorldCom's financial results,

Marty Casey

So those are the tools that I've learned, and getting this falsetto voice that I never knew I had. There have been a few honest musical breakthrough moments that kicked me up a notch.

Michael Nesmith

We're past the false dawn, and now we're in this text-based mode, and the text-based mode, of course, is what will have to settle off to one side.

Diogenes

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

Linda Czyzyk

But these people don't use scientific methods or legitimate psychiatric methods. By offering false hope to people who may really need help, they're doing a tremendous disservice. And there are people out there who really struggle with this that maybe need somebody who can help guide them through the process.

Steve Stanley

No one should have any false hope that the trade gap is going to narrow much or for very long, but at least the speed of the underlying deterioration is less than we thought.

Ken Starr

That is false and you know it to be false,

George Hoffer

You don't want to give people false signals with price.

Mike Grier

It's a little troubling. I think when you start scoring five or six goals a night, you get lulled into a false sense of belief. As a team, we let things slide. Maybe this stretch will help us get our heads screwed back on.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Malcolm Gladwell

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

George Weinberg

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Brad Meltzer

And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

Susanna Kearsley

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Walt Whitman

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Miriam Toews

It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

Betty Smith

It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Philip Kerr

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

Dick Cheney

Senator John McCain put it best: it is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people,

Tasha Joseph

So, if you look up John Smith you can see what a woman says about John Smith and you can see whatever John Smith says about whatever was posted.

Ken Duberstein

There are only two United States senators who have a truly national constituency. One's name is Ted Kennedy and one's name is John McCain,

Michael Owen

I am sure some people will say John or Steve are more obvious skippers but I like to think that I have people's respect.

Jack Campbell

From the third inning on, he was the John Lambert we're used to. He was really in charge.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

James Matthews

If they see they can't go to meets and can't compete, they're not going to come out for track.

Don Perkins

I think the most important thing he teaches all of us, ... is that anything is possible when preparation meets opportunity.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

M. Wolfe

Are they going to have Victoria's Secret selling underwear?

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

Carson McCullers

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Anthony Trollope

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Elie Wiesel

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

Dustin Pedroia

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

Doug Liman

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

Anne Rice

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

David Foster Wallace

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

George Herbert

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

Robert M. Pirsig

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there.

Rufus Choate

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

April Winchell

Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

Tertullian

Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

Zubin Mehta

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.