Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Smiles

Manners are the ornament of action.

Joseph Joubert

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Pope Francis

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

Frank Lloyd Wright

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

William Shakespeare

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Aristotle

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Rem Koolhaas

Sustainability has become an ornament.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Richard Ford

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Tullian Tchividjian

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Morihei Ueshiba

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

James Salter

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Ludwig von Mises

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

John Buchanan Robinson

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Kim Stanley Robinson

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

Ken Wilber

One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,