Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elif Safak

While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

Tia Mowry

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

Matthew Simpson

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Ashton Kutcher

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Howard Rheingold

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

J. M. Coetzee

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

Martin Heidegger

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Austin O'Malley

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

Joseph Addison

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

Bill Gates

The internet is just a passing fad.

Aubrey Daniels

The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.

Connie Sellecca

Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.

Charles Bukowski

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

Daphne Koller

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.

Conrad Black

Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots

Mick Jagger

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

Peter De Vries

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

Stephen Klein

I think it just shows that there are fads and fashions that come and go in the transportation industry as in any industry.

Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Spurgeon

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

Charles Spurgeon

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Alan Watts

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

Alan Moore

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Alan Bennett

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.