Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth

John McCain

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

O. Singh

Without the True Guru, they are deluded by doubt, going to the world hereafter, what face will they show?

Rudyard Kipling

King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.

David Fink

Know what you want. Become your real self.

Keisha Brown

John knows what it takes to win and be a leader. He has the desire to win and he always steps up as a leader. Sometimes in the locker room, I don't need to say what needs to be said because John has already done it for me.

Chris Gordon

J.R. expressed a desire to be a part of something on (The Team) again.

Steve Cleveland

He just lost his desire to play competitively. I have full respect for that. We wish him the very best.

Sigi Schmid

He is the type of player that has a tremendous desire to win. He needs to be an example to our younger players. He needs to be a vocal player, but he can't do any of that until he gets on the field, so first he needs to get healthy.

Dan Gilroy

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

Jean Foster

He (Russell) works hard enough and he's got the desire. We met earlier in the season and set some goals. He's got some pretty high goals but he also has worked really hard too.

Bobby Bowden

He's got tools. He's fast, tall, rangy, great desire, great human being.

Sarah Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

Matthew Pearl

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

Jacki Weaver

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

Steve James

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

Emily Giffin

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

Kenneth Lieberthal

Everyone else sees the substantive issues. But you spend endless hours working on all the other stuff: Who's going to get invited to the state dinner?

Larry Sabato

It splits his base, and it will be endless trouble for him if it goes forward, and I'm sure he won't let it happen.

Deirdre O'Kane

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

Mary Radmacher

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

Solon

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

Antoine Predock

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

Mike Rathgeber

I am incredibly proud of this team. This is one of the most gratifying years I've had. Not one of the most successful, but one of the most gratifying.

Stan Marshall

It's gratifying for me to see a person like this.

Remica Gray

It's so gratifying to hear peoples' response to this.

John Howser

It was gratifying for our office to have the opportunity to participate in this study.

Stewart Butterfield

Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive.

Macy Gray

It is very humbling, but I loved every second of it. It was really gratifying and I had a great time.

Larry Wachtel

It was a very gratifying day. But I'd like to see some follow-through tomorrow (Tuesday).

Bob Hill

(Berlin) was the most gratifying tour of the whole thing.

Patricia Stevens

He's reading Hemingway and writing his life story. It's so gratifying to see him reading Hemingway.

Ian Mckellen

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Russell Simmons

Whatever they can imagine for themselves they can accomplish.

John Schuerholz

I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.

Paul Gebhardt

I don't imagine I would be disqualified, but there can be time or monetary penalties.

William Rhodes

I'd imagine over time you'll see more moves. But you're not going to see them telegraph it.

William Rhodes

I'd imagine over time you'll see more moves,

Sean Rushton

I'd imagine it will be similar to last time. The president will say: 'What do you want us to know?' 'Are there any names you'd like to suggest?' or 'Do you especially oppose anyone?' But I don't think the president is going to tip his hand.

Al Franken

I don't know why they did it and I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations, which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Saul Alinsky

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Rick Warren

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

John Hope

Rise, Brothers! Come let us possess this land. Never say: "Let well enough alone" . . . Be discontented. Be dissatisfied.

Lenny Glasstetter

If there was anything I thought we didn't do well it was possess the ball. I think if we did that we would've won 3-2, but we can still improve.

Christopher Paolini

I like to think that he possesses my better traits, ... But he is very much his own person.

Elizabeth Smart

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Peter Roebuck

It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

Matt Bingham

His vision is impaired, and he will never be self-sufficient,

Anton LaVey

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Kimberly Elise

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Robbie Coltraine

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Holbrooke

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Richard Hofstadter

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Roger Scruton

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

Todd Hollenshead

In the movie, there's a little more subtlety of where they come from, ... Do they actually come from within us and how?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Ruth Ginsburg

What is subtle about what is described here?

Michael Schudson

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Pat Conroy

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Greg Martin

It can be time consuming. It took off a lot of pressure.

Iain Dowie

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Randy Mayes

I can get a feel for whether the person is truthful or not.

Richard Paul Evans

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Richard P. Feynman

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.

Richard P. Feynman

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Richard John Neuhaus

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Richard Hofstadter

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Wayne Dyer

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

Miyamoto Musashi

I dreamt of worldly success once.