Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Weil

Necessity is God's veil.

Martin Luther

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

C. S. Lewis

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Francis Thompson

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

Alexander Smith

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

Hilary Clinton

I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking,

Rep. Hutchins

This is not a racial issue and should not be presented as such. The principle is legal versus illegal status.

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Reese Witherspoon

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

Max Cannon

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

Lisa Kleypas

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I was ill before I fell ill.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Tony Romo

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.

Stephen Hawking

I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.

George Santayana

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

George Herbert

He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.

George Herbert

He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

Franz Kafka

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

Jack Nicholson

I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.

Carlo Goldoni

He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]