Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

William Sharp

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

Richard M. Nixon

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Ugo Betti

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

Robin Williams

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

Robin Williams

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Roger Caras

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

Samuel Butler

History is a bucket of ashes.

Samuel Johnson

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Kelvin Goertzen

I suspect we're just scratching the surface and getting the very tip of the iceberg of the marijuana that is being grown.

Jeff Perry

He can skate and sees the ice very well and he has a big shot.

Mike Dunleavy

He's got ice water in his veins. He just comes in and makes big plays.

George Smith

What do you do when you want to keep meat fresh? You put it on ice, right? Well, we have ice in our blood, so we are preserved well.

Woody Allen

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

William Shenstone

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

Will Durant

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

Sarah Addison Allen

Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.

Sanya Richards-Ross

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.

Milton Friedman

I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 - is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities and would not have occurred under earlier monetary and banking arrangements.

Plutarch

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Elizabeth McCracken

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

Edsger Dijkstra

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

Abraham Verghese

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Tom Stoppard

You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.

Marianne Moore

Omissions are not accidents.

George Eliot

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

Alexander Theroux

There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.