Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Alec Waugh

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!

Alfred Sisley

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Alfred Sisley

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Alfred North Whitehead

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

Alfred North Whitehead

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.

Corin Nemec

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

Andrew Vachss

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Joe Thornton

Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.

Ricky Jay

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Rihanna

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Richie Sambora

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

Tim Allen

I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there, and I like cruising through the hills.