Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashton Eaton

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

Benito Mussolini

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Jane Austen

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Boethius

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Eckhart Tolle

When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.

Eckhart Tolle

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.

Ed Parker

Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

Granth Sahib

As I have seen Him, so have I described Him. This Sublime Essence comes only to one who knows the Mystery of the Lord. His light merges into the Light, and he finds peace. O servant Nanak, this is all the Extension of the One.

Danny Blind

A two-year extension was not an option for us.

Bobby Stevens

Victor's the guy who holds it all together. He's an extension of me on the floor. He's versatile, a 4.1 (GPA) student and the hardest worker we have in practice and in games. The other players respect Victor, so when he speaks, they listen.

M. Thompson

If we get too much of that, we'll go before the American people and the United States Senate and suggest we need an extension (in the hearings.) And those same people, I'm sure, would not want an extension,

Gus Van Sant

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Dwayne Hickman

He and I were opposites on the screen and in real life in many ways, because I was an extension of Dobie and he was an extension of Maynard.

Charles Kennedy

How far that extension might or might not go, I think is something that will require further evidence.

Kelly Walsh

There aren't many full-time yoga teachers. Most of us teach as an extension of our own practice. It helps keep you going on your path if you're teaching other people.

Mike Berry

We may have some opportunities to do some future development with them in an extension of this partnership.

Jeremy Fishbein

People can question what they want, but Jeff finds a way to score goals regardless of who he is playing. Whoever gets him will be really happy. He always finds a way to succeed. He didn't start out getting things handed to him, but he sure found his way.

Alvin Gentry

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

Mike Mills

Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.

Brad Arnsberg

There's not any spots open in that bullpen, but he's got to understand what an integral part of this program he is. I've said to other guys, 'You're ready for the big leagues, but the big leagues aren't ready for you.' Hopefully he finds himself in that spot.

Sathya Baba

When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.

Giselle Davies

If the IOC finds them guilty of a doping violation they would be declared ineligible for the Games.

Randy Le

If someone finds a lower price, we'll match it.

Joe Sakic

He works hard and just finds a way to get open.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She's just a tough little kid and she finds a way to win.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Mike Greene

People are thinking about signing up at gyms, and everyone knows people make commitments and don't stay to them.

Sarah Williams

People don't always know what open space pieces have been preserved by the trust. A lot of things are just there, and no one knows how to find them.

E. O. Wilson

No one wants to pay more on water bills, ... But it's federally mandated and everyone knows it's the law.

Howard Davidowitz

The most important people who have to be motivated are the store employees; they're your life blood. Federated knows this.

Chris Neudeck

Now coordination is much more substantial. Everyone knows what's going on.

Chris Hall

Now he knows what to do. He's a pitcher.

Robert Brown

So, one day more I am deified. / Who knows but the world may end tonight?

Dr. Trucco

This is the first time that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Barbara Steele

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Auguste Rodin

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

Jane Hirshfield

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

Jan Morris

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

Cam Newton

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

Alan Davies

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

bell hooks

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Craig Kilborn

It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.'

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Richard Lobb

The timing is a mystery to us. We did not seek this rule. We're not objecting to it, but we didn't support it, either.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Anne Spencer

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

Angela Lansbury

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

Anne Rice

Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.

David Lynch

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery

David Hare

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Carl Willis

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

Albert Jones

I seen somebody shoot. I can't tell you who it was.

Abdu'l Baha

We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.

Winston Churchill

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

Publilius Syrus

He who fears his servants is less than a servant.

Oprah Winfrey

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

Francis of Assisi

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.