Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Ashley Tisdale

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

Karel Schrijver

We have a much better insight into what causes the strongest, most dangerous solar flares, and how to develop forecasts that can predict an 'all clear' for significant space weather, for longer periods.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.

Joe Biden

Methamphetamine causes much more destruction in a much shorter period of time,

Jacqui Smith

It is disappointing that a stubborn minority of pupils, estimated at 8,000 in just 4% of secondary schools, remain determined to jeopardise their education and their futures through persistent truancy. While the causes of truancy are complex and challenging, we will focus on this minority who are responsible for much of unauthorised absence.

Edwards Deming

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

Brad Childress

It doesn't hurt. But it causes a splitting headache for the coaches.

Michael Retsky

We don't have all the answers. We think our work has pointed out that the mammography paradox is real. We are confident we understand what causes it. We have identified a problem -- a mechanism that is testable. We have not found a solution. But identifying the problem is a major step in the right direction.

Chris Bell

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

Ariel Sharon

We have already paid an international price for the delay in these negotiations,

George Breed

With the tournament sold out, great weather and a great field, it's not surprising that were experiencing some delay.

Alan Paller

Microsoft's delay is inexcusable. There's no excuse other than incompetence and negligence.

Robert Adams

While the delay has been aggravating, it's great to get the site that we have wanted since the beginning.

William Shakespeare

By-and-by is easily said.

Jake Sanches

We put hard work into this. Given the situation, we'll see if they can pick up the tab. Due to the delay in publication, we feel it's fair.

Jim Smith

We have some people who chronically delay until the last minute. Some just don't want to think about it. Some are too busy, putting it off until they have to do it.

John Conley

We know it's a dynamic situation, but it's totally premature to talk about delays or postponement. Runners need to be prepared and dress for the weather.

Giles Foden

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

Emma Goldman

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

Carrie Fisher

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Bill Vaughan

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Bill Vaughan

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

Bill Bradley

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Petrarch

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

William Shakespeare

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

William Shakespeare

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?

Thomas Hood

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

C. S. Lewis

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

Mike Church

That was tough, but we split the series and you have to be happy with that knowing you?re going back home for three games.

Patrick Ness

Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

Richard Eyre

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

Richard Eyre

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Ellen Gillespie

We have a lot of happy store owners in town.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.

Deborah Durham

Manners are how you show how you're going to relate to someone else.

Bryan Sierra

We have not indicated in any manner that we are winding down.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Elena Cuevas

We are doing it in a very peaceful manner so there is not any type of disturbance. I think the time is right for people to do something and they are doing it now.

Alan McCoy

We are operating in a manner that we unfortunately must do, under the circumstances." ()

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Curtis Mayfield

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

C. S. Lewis

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

C. S. Lewis

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

C. S. Lewis

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Cecelia Ahern

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Carrie Fisher

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Carl Sagan

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Warren R. Austin

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

Don Miguel Ruiz

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Ariel Sharon

The peace plan outlined in the president's speech is a reasonable, pragmatic and practicable one.

Bikram Choudhury

Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.

John C. Calhoun

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Cecelia Ahern

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Benjamin Rush

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Bernard Berenson

One can repent even of having repented.

Saint Ambrose

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

Anselm of Canterbury

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

Publilius Syrus

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

Publilius Syrus

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

Giovanni Boccaccio

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

Ezra Taft Benson

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

Mark Driscoll

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

J. C. Ryle

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Carrie Fisher

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Carrie Underwood

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

Carl Safina

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Bill Bryson

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Bill Bryson

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

Bethenny Frankel

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

Bill Burr

I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.

Bill Hicks

The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.

Ken Henderson

We have been waiting all year to put it all together.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.