Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Michael Assael

His thinking was a little off and too complicated.

Alex Jones

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

Kurt Ritchie

I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.

Rob Zombie

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.

Rob Brown

Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial."

Rob Brown

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

Rob Halford

We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

Richard O'Brien

Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

Richard Paul Evans

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Richard Francis Burton

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Walter Huston

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

Jacques Lacan

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Henry Ford

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

Malin Akerman

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.