Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wallace

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

Robert Jordan

The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

Neale Donald Walsch

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

Joseph Addison

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Jonathan Swift

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy.

Friedrich Schiller

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Sara Jones

Take it double time. Four circles left, four circles right.

Ann Snyder

It's hysterical to watch, as long as you're out of range, ... When they get excited they run around in circles doing one handstand after another.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Vladimir Nabokov

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

William P. Young

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Jose Saramago

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

Kevin Spacey

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Ryan Whitney

I went to put my stick between his legs and lift his stick up, but I just got him too high. I didn't mean to spear him. It was just an accident.

Mahatma Gandhi

Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

Larry Gelbart

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

Novak Djokovic

No, I have something else between my legs.

Emile Zola

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Epictetus

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Bret Bielema

It was an opportunity for them to get their legs back under them.

Jarret Stoll

It's going to be an important March for us, an important March for everybody. It's going to be important for us to get our legs under us right away.

Carly Rae Jepsen

You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'