Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giacomo Casanova

Therefore must we pray to God, and believe that He has granted the favour we have been praying for, even when in appearance it seems the reverse.

Patsy Smith

It's just a classy appearance, with a touch of modern mingling with the realism of the paintings.

Tim Edwards

A lot more bikes are selling at MSRP so Harley is starting to give the appearance of being more like auto companies, using incentives to push product through the dealer, ... That could boost unit sales but at what cost?

Oscar Wilde

A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.

Cheryl Conway

This entire ordinance is completely based on physical appearance.

Kevin Flanagan

This appearance has taken on heightened significance as we try to find clarity on whether the Fed will stop tightening after May 10th (policy setting meeting) or not.

Leah Rush

They should be more open to letting their colleagues decide the merits of the bill, so that even the appearance of a conflict is avoided.

Sean Brady

They even look cool. They give you a nice, strong upper body appearance.

Chris Hutchings

There was definitely frustration about Henri's non-appearance. We weren't happy about it.

Tom DeLay

There is no negotiating with a man like this, ... There is no safe path to accommodate his ambitions. Our only responsible option was to confront this threat before more Americans die. He must be removed from power.

Dan Harel

We're going to outnumber everybody. We have the technology, the knowledge and the will to confront (defiant settlers).

Bill Parcells

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

Gene Stilp

We're going to confront these guys. We're taking this to the court of the streets where people think. We're taking this to the court of public opinion.

George Cook

They don't want to confront this issue. The kids have indicated that they want this to happen, and that's what this is supposed to be about.

Mark Fulghum

They were confronted by three men. The man was hit over the head and they were robbed.

David Horowitz

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.

Sam Buell

They're going to be confronted for the first time with lots of detailed questions that they didn't face before because the questioners didn't know all the facts yet.

Sarah Waters

The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.

Arlen Specter

The word is, he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word 'if,

Anita Brookner

Death is only a small interruption.

Dieter Althaus

If it doesn't happen, we'll simply have to interrupt the talks.

Jackie Wagstaff

I didn't know (these meetings) were off-limits. I was not trying to interrupt or take over their meeting.

Frank Robinson

He is a warrior, and I am not going to take him out there and interrupt things out there on that field.

Marlon Anderson

The main thing is you just want to stay out of everybody's way, just don't want to interrupt anything. More than anything, you just want to observe.

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Mike Heffernan

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

Gene Stephenson

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Bill Trumbo

We're in a much-improved spot from a year ago. At this point last season, we were 0-4.

William Shakespeare

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shawan Robinson

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Alexa Vega

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Denise Bottcher

A lot of the lessons were learned before (Hurricane) Rita.

Daniel Alfredsson

A lot of us learned from Salt Lake, and we learned that if you're not ready, anything can happen.

Bobby Bowden

They played like freshmen. Maybe they learned something.

Kelly Williams

This has been a real challenge, but in the end it is going to be worth it. I feel I learned a lot about how public relations work, and not just that but I learned a lot about myself as well.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Andre Bazin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

Thomas Carlyle

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Roland Barthes

The Text is not a definitive object.

Rumi

No better love than love with no object

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Philip Johnson

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Mark Heiderscheid

It's a tough part about the sport of soccer. You can really possess it a lot and do a lot of things right but you have to score goals.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Virginia Postrel

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Jonathan Schell

No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.

Dan Colen

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

Gordon W. Allport

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

Erik Crawford

Every possession was gold. It seems like every time we play Southern, it comes down to the end.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Edith Wharton

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Arnold Newman

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

Bill Moyers

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Charlaine Harris

Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

Charles Horton Cooley

In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

Bill McCartney

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Theresa Wise

This is a fantastically sensible idea. With the convergence of telecom and broadcasters through interactive television, there is a real need for a single regulator.

Michael Adams

It was a tough call, but a sensible one.

Charles Kennedy

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

Matthias Platzeck

Arbitration is a sensible suggestion which it is worth discussing.

Georg Greve

There could be something that addresses this if we can find a sensible way to put it.

Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Paul Ashworth

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

John Henry Newman

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

Gustav Mahler

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Brian Higgins

That's why the Partnership is silent on this,

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Deepak Chopra

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Abraham Lincoln

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Ally Carter

Ooh, the silent treatment.

Thomas Jefferson

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Rumi

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

Allen Moore

It was something I had done a thousand times,

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Susanne Villarreal

One church. One day. Three thousand letters. It was overwhelming.

Elie Wiesel

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Andreas Gursky

A word is worth a thousand images.

William Shakespeare

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

William Shakespeare

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

Madeleine Albright

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

C. S. Lewis

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

C. S. Lewis

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

C. S. Lewis

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Cheri Huber

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.