Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Gage

It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.

Debbie Taylor

I think Old Dominion is the only team that doesn't have an on-off switch.

Ovid

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

Rita Mae Brown

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting

John Burnside

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Donald Trump

So in our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

Adam Sandler

I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

Amy Poehler

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

Douglas Adams

Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Sri Chinmoy

What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

Oscar Wilde

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

Gordon B. Hinckley

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Mary J. Blige

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Keira Knightley

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Camille Pissarro

It is absurd to look for perfection.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you've dreamed.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Robert Baden-Powell

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Robert Baden-Powell

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Sydney J. Harris

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Suze Orman

You're thinking to yourself, 'How is it possible that I am going to pay back $150,000 in student loans? I'm never going to pay that back. What am I going to do?' Listen to me and listen to me good, class of 2013. I want you to think back to all of these things you said to yourself, 'I can't do that. I can't palpate a cow. And what's worse, palpating a cow or taking semen from a horse?' But you did it, didn't you?

Scott Adams

Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?

Scott Adams

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Ang Lee

I think I can work with any type of actor.

Brenda Brathwaite

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.

Bobby Lee

When 'MADtv' got cancelled, I didn't work at all - for three years.