Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Howard Kunstler

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.

Alexander Pope

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul

Rose Rosetree

That means he's got a lot of humility, and the kind of sense of humor that charms people.

John Clare

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

Josh Billings

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first

Fergus Henderson

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

Lauren Holmes

I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'

Hannah Cowley

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Samuel Foote

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Dodie Smith

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Phaedrus

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

George Colman

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

William Wycherley

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

John Ciardi

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

William James

Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.

Walter Gropius

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Christopher Marlowe

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss

John Ashbery

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

Margaret Thatcher

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

Peter S. Beagle

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Monica Crowley

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Rob Cosby

They don't quit. They don't want to quit playing and neither do I.

Pat Gelsinger

It really is something that neither one of us could have done on their own.

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Chris Smith

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Kevin Cathcart

Tragedy does not discriminate, and neither should relief agencies.

Charles Ferguson Smith

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Michael Steele

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

Buddha

He is not the same, nor is he another.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rex Stout

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

Rex Stout

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.