Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hanks

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

Tom Shales

So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth.

Atharva Veda

O Merciful to the meek, O Dear Lord King, You have engaged millions of people in Your Service. You are the Lover of Your devotees; this is Your Nature. You are totally pervading all places.

Walt Whitman

O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

Joyce Smith

I lost two things dear to me this year. I lost my husband and I lost my house,

Unknown

May all your hopes and dreams come true, and may the memory of this day become more dear with each passing year.

Hafiz Persia

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

Curtis Sliwa

My very dear friend who is a friend no more didn't even give me a heads up that he was going to testify for my enemy.

Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Doug Isenberg

I think Napster is probably on its deathbed unless the music industry plaintiffs decide that it's worthwhile to settle with Napster.

Tom Goldstein

As a result of our investigation, we've determined the information did not reach its destination, and is missing and presumed lost.

Josh Teeples

Determination. I was just determined that I was gong to do it this time.

Charlie Brotman

The starting time of the parade is actually determined by the length of time of the traditional brunch,

Jamie Zuieback

After further review, it was determined that it would be appropriate to grant humanitarian parole for this child.

Toni Chovanetz

After interviewing the passenger, it was determined to be appropriate to release him at this time.

Saeb Erekat

so the truth can be determined once and for all.

Lori Walker

The rhythm for our team in the first half was strong. We are starting to see some personality emerge and in the second half we were determined to pull things together. The game was really flowing together for us.

Susan Page

This is an event where the planners are really determined to get on TV -- not in the old-style newspaper that gets published 12 hours later.

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.

Catherine McCormack

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Arundhati Roy

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

Douglas Booth

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

Charles Spurgeon

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

Aristophanes

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

Brian Lumley

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Edward Abbey

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Adam Brody

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

Ally Carter

She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained. "Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together. "It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect.

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Bashar al-Assad

In the End, a Lie Is a Lie.

Ayn Rand

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level...

Ayn Rand

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

Bertrand Russell

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Benito Mussolini

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

Benito Mussolini

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Roni Java

We regret that there was any misunderstanding. Hopefully, this will get us on the road to resolution.

Ayelet Waldman

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

Brian Bosworth

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Jane Jacobs

Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.

Jane D. Hull

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.

Cameron Diaz

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Alan Cumming

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

Charles Darwin

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

Channing Tatum

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.