Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Henson

We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.

Bill Doyle

The memorial itself has been an afterthought. It's astounding to me that the only thing they have up there after four years are a couple of posters.

Vint Cerf

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

Yale Hirsch

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

Grant M. Bright

You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Lori Cooper

There are new technologies currently under development that are astounding there is always room for this category to grow. One of the big challenges when you deal with proprietary performance fabrics is to ensure that the costs involved with developing and producing the fabrics does not make the garments cost prohibitive to the consumer at the end of the day. We are careful to be sensitive to that for the benefit of our customer and we also understand which benefits our customer values as well.

James Horner

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

Brian Greene

As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a universe that essentially amounts to earth, or one's country, or state or city. Perspective becomes myopic.

Simon Callow

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Willie Pearson

King was persistent in her words and deeds of encouragement. She never wavered from her stance of non-violence as the only viable option for change.

Richard John Neuhaus

We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person...

Zhuangzi

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

William Morris

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Sam Veda

That is why not only we should ourselves engage in good deeds but also encourage others to do the same.

John Greenleaf Whittier

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

Joseph Joubert

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

Ovid

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

Ovid

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Dana Brunetti

When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'

Dani Shapiro

I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

Mike Huckabee

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

Irish Proverb

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.

Lou Reed

You're going to reap just what you sow

Bible Bible

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Andrew Carnegie

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap,

Mac Miller

I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.

Randy Pausch

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Warren Buffett

Returns decrease as motion increases.

W. S. Gilbert

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

Ronald Reagan

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ben Kingsley

I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.

Jack Wagner

If PCI is not going to use these funds, they should be returned to their rightful owners, Pennsylvania taxpayers,

Kenneth Fisher

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

Assemblyman Karben

The idea is to return these sites to the status they were before they were polluted. That's what a cleanup is.

Ellen Glasgow

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Silvan Shalom

It is very, very important to stop them, and the sooner the better,

Gregg Overman

That's a 'no-later-than' date. It could be sooner than that.

George Ade

Those who are entitled to it get it sooner or later.

Saadi Saadi

They should come up with it forthwith. The sooner they do it, the better it is for all concerned.

Bobby Bowden

It's one of those things you have to do sooner or later, and we can't wait any later,

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.