Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alun Jones

The savage and barbarous crimes committed in Chile and the territories of other states including the USA, Spain and Italy are not within the functions of a head of state in English law, the law of nations, or the law of Chile.

Gray Davis

This is an unspeakably barbarous act. These investigators were working hard, doing their jobs, protecting California consumers. I am sure that law enforcement will do everything in its power to bring those responsible to justice.

Jose Rizal

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

Louis MacNeice

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

George Edward Woodberry

Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon --that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on --Judibras

Isabella Bird

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?

Ethan Allen

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue

Edith Wharton

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Lee Bermejo

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.

Troy Sunderland

It's one of those things where there's not a whole lot you can say. You feel like your world's crumbling down. He's going through a lot of emotions right now. It's difficult.

P. J. O'Rourke

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Jennifer Rizzotti

This year and last year the team has really responded to her and she learned how to handle that responsibility. She's gone from shying away from that and sometimes crumbling under that pressure to learning how to deal with it and make us better for it.

Groucho Marx

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of your fellow man

John Emerich

Never be surprised at the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton

Kristin Hannah

I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],

Tim Taylor

What do you do? You battle. It's the NHL playoffs. (But) it seems like everything is crumbling down around us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

Edith Sitwell

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

David Brainerd

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Audre Lorde

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

Derek Jarman

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

Carlos Castaneda

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

Charlotte Bronte

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

Charles M. Schulz

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

Bernard of Clairvaux

Death is the gate of life.

Helen Rice

The more you love the more you'll find that life is good and friends are kind and only what we give away enriches us from day to day.

Amir Mohebian

It's not rational to tell Iran not to enrich uranium - it's our right.

Ellen Anderson

It's a large part of my life, but its kind of hard to have it be a large part of my life, because you get made fun of a lot, I'm looking to enrich my faith.

Joshua Cohen

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

Paul Leventhal

Ten thousand centrifuge machines are needed to produce enriched uranium.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia's proposal to enrich uranium on its territory remains on the negotiating table.

John Howard

There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.

Franco Frattini

The Russian proposal to enrich uranium outside Iran is still on the table and needs to be explored fully.

Bob Miller

There are five good reasons why men who can sing should come to this event, ... Sing your heart out, sharpen your singing skills, establish lasting friendships, enrich lives and have some fun.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Larry Walker

We were at triple-match point, now we are at double- match point, to use a tennis term, but we still have a steep hill to climb,

Alan Lowe

When we got to the hill at the (American) Legion, that got to me, ... That was emotional.

Jim Erickson

With the rovers we've actually been able to go look and pick the things we wanted to see whether it was up on top of hills or whether it was down inside the craters, you name it.

Brian Giles

We knew what Jake was going through even before he took the hill for us,

John McNeil

It's the 'Mansion on the Island' now. You didn't realize how big that hill was until the hill was gone.

Kirsten Clark

As long as the race hills are covered, we're all set. I know they've been working hard. And it's not a problem as long as they can get it in somehow.

Kent Perkins

Runners who train on hills will do well. You have to keep them in mind.

Tony Danza

said Danza before taking the hill last night. ''And I'm going to shake off the catcher.

Doug Donovan

We're looking to get comfortably through April. As for May, we'll see. Last year, I made turns on this hill on May 15 on all-natural snow.

Charles Simmons

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

B. F. Skinner

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

J. Paul Getty

The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.

Martin O'Malley

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Pastor Maldonado

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

Margaret Sanger

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

Lee Siegel

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

Jerome Lawrence

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

James A. Garfield

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Mike Taylor

They feel our pain. They understand it. Whether that will manifest itself into more dollars, I don't know.

Michael Jenkins

There's been no need to do that. He just has to be patient, and everything will work itself out.

Giordano Bruno

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

Robert Krulwich

A seed, after all, is an embryo, a potential plant waiting for its moment to grow. It has what it needs to begin. But it can also put itself on pause. It can wait.

Matthew Arnold

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace.

Reggie Evans

The tape speaks for itself without me saying it. If I did something wrong, I would have been suspended. Let's put it like that.

John Taylor Gatto

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

James Balog

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

Jerry Uelsmann

The room itself had a strange, timeless quality to it.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Debbie Stabenow

At a time when so many Americans struggle to pay for the prescription drugs they need, we must look for ways to lower the price of those drugs.

Trilby Lundberg

All point to lower prices at the pump,

Shawn McCambridge

This indicates lower use for the first quarter of this year.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Dudley North

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Ivan Lathouders

These results are not spectacular. If you don't take one-offs into account, the net profits are lower than expected.

Anthony Coscia

This is a real turning point in the development of lower Manhattan.

Chief Joseph

I know that my race must change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Edward Gibbon

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Edward Gibbon

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

Eddie Marsan

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

David Ricardo

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

David Icke

The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.

Alan Shearer

It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.

Anton Chekhov

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.

A. N. Wilson

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

E. M. Forster

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

David Bailey

My paintings are rubbish.

Eugene O'Neill

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Kingsley Amis

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Morley Safer

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Emile Zola

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Richard V. Allen

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

Thomas Jefferson

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Nikolai Gogol

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

J. I. Packer

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

Michael Donovan

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

James Joyce

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Raza Jaffrey

Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.

Tom DeLay

To all these new spending requests, I say, 'Mr. President, show me the money,

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

Ron Bruch

There are a lot of stories out there, some probably written and stored with old photographs in shoeboxes in closets.

Camille Paglia

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Bryant H. McGill

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Democritus

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Brother Lawrence

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

Elizabeth Edwards

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

Granth Sahib

Devotional worship to the Lord, Har, Har, is an overflowing treasure

Douglas Coupland

Keep your treasure to yourself.

Donald Sutherland

We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.

Debbi Fields

The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.