Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archibald MacLeish

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Daniel Handler

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Edmund Burke

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Eckhart Tolle

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Shakti Gawain

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

Ray Bradbury

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

Seth Godin

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mercy Otis Warren

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

John Tillotson

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Mark Twain

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Alexis de Tocqueville

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life....

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Brian Hewitt

Assuming that Nike gets her from head to toe that would be Nike equipment, Nike clothes, the whole bit she would have nothing but Swooshes. That's the number she would automatically get from just signing. Overnight, she would get $10 million to $12 million. It depends on how the contract is structured, but that's what I'm hearing.

Joe Biden

The original power given to them was assuming that it would be used with discretion, ... Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me.

Alberto Manguel

Every text assumes a reader.

Paulo Freire

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Tom Glavine

Let's be honest, Pedro for five innings is better than no Pedro at all. With the way our bullpen is going to be structured, having a day off Tuesday, it might not be so bad to have him out there for only five innings -- assuming he's healthy and that's the most important thing.

Nigel Winterburn

Lots of players can do it for 10-15 games but we want to see them do it for 40, 50, 100 or 200 games, winning titles again. That will be the big test. Everyone's assuming they will go from strength to strength. I hope they do because it's an exciting team. They haven't played a physical team away for a while and I hope they have learned the lesson that as well as all the good football you play you have to stand up to those teams.

Aaron Copland

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

Kristy McNichol

From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn't live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.

Sheldon Souray

I was skating back and yelling at him to freeze the puck. I was assuming that he was going to but he had a different idea. That's why communication is important.