Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Marcia Muller

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

Bernie Mac

Fear is not one of my attributes.

Charles M. Schwab

What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.

Henry David Thoreau

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Ken Kercheval

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

Wade Dubielewicz

It seems lately, instead of two or three guys (in front), there's only one guy. You can attribute it to whatever, but now I'm finding pucks. I feel a little more confident.

David Clarke

It seems the homes that are real popular are the ones that are at the low end of the price distribution. I attribute some of that to the second-home phenomenon.

Mark Bryant

A lot of this (rally) you can attribute to oil being down more than a dollar, ... You had basically a one-stock decline with 3M this morning, and because that is somewhat seen as a proxy for the economy, like GE, it was weighing on the blue chips.

Charles Dickens

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Charles Dickens

As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.

Charles Dickens

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

Charles Dickens

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

Charles Dickens

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

Charles Caleb Colton

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

Charles Caleb Colton

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Charles Caleb Colton

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

Charles Spurgeon

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

Cherry Loney

The people who need to know have been contacted. We did an investigation. It has been determined some people needed to be notified. We identified who they are.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

Charles Sanders Peirce

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

George Eliot

There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life

Maurizio Giuliano

Whether this looming humanitarian disaster will be averted, will ultimately be determined in major world capitals.

Hosni Mubarak

We remain most willing and determined to do all we can,

Michael Redd

We were determined to start off well. Loved it. We need that every night.

Shawn Rojeski

We were determined to get ourselves up, to play well for a medal.

Paul O'Neill

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,

Casey Luskin

Students will learn more about evolution, not less as some Darwinists have falsely claimed.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Spurgeon

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Al Roker

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Chris Metzger

We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.

Chris Cagle

She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

Edmond Rostand

Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Jim Gulliford

We're looking for large payoffs. But they're done incrementally.

Nicholas Burns

We are (also) disappointed that Radovan Karadzic is still at large and not in the Hague,

Bible Bible

Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

Georg Brandes

About the same time as my legal studies were thus beginning, I planned out a study of Philosophy and Aesthetics on a large scale as well.

John Antioco

accomplished what we did this quarter in large part because of our no-late-fees program, not in spite of it.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Charles Dickens

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Charles Dickens

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

Charles Dickens

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Charles Dickens

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

Charles Dickens

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

Charles Dickens

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

Charles Dickens

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

Charles Dickens

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

Charles Dickens

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Charles Dickens

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Charles Spurgeon

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Chris Bosh

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

Five Live

It's a pity striker Wayne Rooney is suspended for the game. I can't say what formation I will use, but I'll probably have two up front,

Ariana Grande

Never take yourself too seriously.

Daniel Quinn

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Maina Kiai

Unfortunately this has come after a lot of public pressure. It's a pity it's taken too long to happen.

Thomas Hood

Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Walter Mare

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.

Joseph Estrada

They never stopped intimidating and ridiculing our poor countrymen,

Stacey Stevens

It's not like we've had poor seasons. We've had poor finishes.

Jeff Mathews

We presume there is going to be (a meeting).

Jaime Suchlicki

I presume that it's going to come in.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Sally Regenhard

This is an abomination that we are putting this on construction workers.

Howie Long

They talked about putting him on the punt team -- and he said he wouldn't come to the meetings.

Michelle Jenneke

It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

Pedro Noguera

It's not that they don't value education, ... They're putting too much trust in the schools. That's a big mistake.

Ann Stevenson

there will be enough to go around, and we will be putting out new stuff all day.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Bob Hope

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

Brian Higgins

That's why the Partnership is silent on this,

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Deepak Chopra

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Abraham Lincoln

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Ally Carter

Ooh, the silent treatment.

Thomas Jefferson

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

Edward James Olmos

I don't support violence, period.

Edith Widder

Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do.

Eddie Izzard

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Charles Spurgeon

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Alan Watts

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Al Madrigal

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

Edith Wharton

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

David Icke

It's amazing how everything fits together in the world of the Illuminati if you are prepared to dig deep enough.

Deepika Padukone

Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope

Chris Carr

It's just crazy. This is worse than 9-11, with everything that's going on with that.

Ali Kerimli

It's even worse than our most pessimistic expectations.

John Updike

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

Angie Murphy

I told them we can't play any worse and we're still in the game.

Charles Talleyrand

This is worse than a crime, it's a blunder

Joe Dunn

It was always horrible. This was a whole lot worse than it had ever been.

Reggie Sanders

it was a lot worse than I thought it was.

Michael Boyle

The whiter it is, the worse it is,

David McWilliams

This one is much worse than 1995 and there is more of this to go.