Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, / That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: / And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Jerry Beasley

Coal keeps the lights on!' And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord's scholarship program.

Daniel Gibson

Once you put on that burnt orange, you're a part of that Texas tradition. It's a tradition of excellence.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

Chief Ogden

You should burn very cautiously. If you're burning your trash off, for example in a 55-gallon drum, the big thing is to keep a screen over it and watch for any embers that pop out.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

Bruce Springsteen

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go,

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up

Jason Williams

As it stands, I have fired four rounds, killed four squirrels and been visited by four police officers. The first time, they SWAT-deployed. This is silly.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Edmund Spenser

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Dick Francis

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Ted Hughes

Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.

John Bennett

If you have the time and money, a week or two of total immersion is the ideal solution.

Irving Kaufman

The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a profession that is the same for all.

Myleene Klass

This is my ideal job and I can't wait to get started.

Stephane Dion

It's not an ideal situation, but the show must go on.

Lynsey Addario

I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

Darin Strauss

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

Armondo Cima

The quicker we can get to the ideal that we are solid players with simple skills and we do simple things we will be successful.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

Dave McKean

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

Hugh Grant

Sandy is in love with me, and I really like Sandy, but for me it's just a sex thing,

Sorin Cerin

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did.

William Allingham

Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Lewis Carroll

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.

Morris Peterson

We should be 3-0 on this road trip, but we're 0-3. There are no moral victories here.

Catherine Young

We don't want to start settling for moral victories, but that was a moral victory for us. We went toe-to-toe with them for 79 minutes, and I'm real proud of the girls.

Katie Gearlds

There's no moral victory here; we wanted to win and that's why it hurts.

Dorothea Brande

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

Adolf Hitler

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

Aretha Franklin

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

C. S. Lewis

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

Charles Bukowski

You have my soul and I have your money

Aristotle

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Aristotle

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

Ben Jonson

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Deepak Chopra

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

Deepak Chopra

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Edward Abbey

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Dr. Seuss

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Dalai Lama

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

Andrei Sakharov

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Alice Cooper

You know it's always funny - the more legend awards you get, the closer you get to the grave, I guess, i am going full strength right now so it's great to get these while you're alive, I'd hate to get them after you're dead.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Alexander Crummell

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

David Cronenberg

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Thornton Wilder

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Victor Borge

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.

Mason Cooley

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

Gail Godwin

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

George Herbert

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

Jena Malone

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Goldwin Smith

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.