Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonin Artaud

I myself am an absolute abyss.

Daniel Waldschmidt

They say don't look down in life. That's just not reality. Sometimes you have to look straight into the abyss where danger, pain, and frustration seem likely to crush your dreams. You must continue forward. This is the moment where you choose your destiny.

Stephen Hadley

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence . . . is not in their interests.

Francois Rabelais

The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

Stephen Vizinczey

Women cannot always flow, and even when they do, they well up slowly, while men are quick as torrents - they are primed by nature to burst forth at different times... the twenty-minute gap, the abyss between the sexes.

Anais Nin

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

Angelus Silesius

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Chogyam Trungpa

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

Chogyam Trungpa

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

Chip Kidd

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores...

Chip Kidd

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

Ed Baker

Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.

Eartha Kitt

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

David Douglass

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

Deborah Moggach

When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they werent out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

Deborah Mailman

People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Masi Oka

Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

Damon Galgut

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

George Fleming

Keep your references up to speed on your job search and its results. By communicating what's going on with you and your job search, you're using your references to the fullest capacity.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

David Bowers

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.

Robert Ferguson

Absurd. The prediction of a 4-degree increase in global temperatures in the next 100 years is ridiculous, and that kind of an increase in sea level is greatly overblown.

Nancy Nolan

It's just to let people in Lexington ... know what's going on ... in the surrounding communities and what's going on with global warming.

Judith Curry

This firms up the link between sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity. It is an important piece of the global warming debate.

Sam Pitroda

It is time we structure our institutions of knowledge to be a global player in the 21st century.

O. Henry

It's not our forces. It's not the Western world that's going to win the global war on terrorism. It is going to be the moderate Muslim population, the ones who are the principal victims of this terrorism.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to shadow a line instead of one player.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Kelly Clark

Unfortunately, it went 9 yards instead of 10.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Kenneth Fisher

The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

Nancy Hall

They've been wonderful neighbors, in fact, I don't even know they're there.

Gordon Smith

They've been turning off dams, tearing them out, shutting down nuclear reactors, preventing new utilities from being sited, ... We as their neighbors should not have to pick up their tab. It's just really a question of fairness.

John Driscoll

people don't realize that those with addictions are our own ... our neighbors even, and those who are otherwise successful.

Bob Davies

They are affordable, and people have established a nice sense of community. Obviously, the neighbors get to know each other. They have mobilized pretty quick.

Jon Huntsman

This could be the state of Utah we're talking about. We're doing it for our neighbors this time, but it could well have been Utah,

John Galloway

We're having just a wee get-together with neighbors.

Angela Johnson

See all us? We neighbors. We got to stick together.

Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Chris Fox

But we feel the safety of the neighbors to the pipe is more important.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Scott Tucker

It was something unexpected. I didn't know this was going to happen. I just wish more could have been done to prevent it.

Ben Bernanke

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Robert Belshe

Preventing influenza in children, we think, will reduce influenza in our society.

Roger Smith

That?s good. It prevents the big earthquakes from coming.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bob Woodward

They rise to this office. They want a big-time presidency.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

Richard Crashaw

It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Brenda Hill

Every principal, teacher and paraprofessional has risen to the occasion.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Strow

That was the attraction. It was a tremendously strategic location.

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.