Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Wilcox

If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait.

Henry Mayhew

The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim; but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.

James Stephens

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.

Bhagavad Gita

All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquillity. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady.

Bhagavad Gita

They prescribe various specific rites for the attainment of pleasure and power to those who are full of desires, and hold the attainment of heaven as the highest goal of life. The rebirth is their fruit of action.

Bhagavad Gita

Detachment, non-fondness with son, wife, and home; unfailing equanimity upon attainment of the desirable and the undesirable; and / Unswerving devotion to Me by the yoga of exclusivity, love for solitude, distaste for social gossips; and / Steadfastness in knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and the perception of (the omnipresent God as) the object of true knowledge is called knowledge; what is contrary to this is ignorance.

John Abernethy

There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.

Louis D. Brandeis

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Benigno Aquino III

My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Sidonie Colette

Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

Louis Pasteur

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

William Shakespeare

And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Oscar Wilde

The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour

George Will

The homosexual subculture based on brief, barren assignations is, in part, a dark mirror of the sex-obsessed majority culture.

Thomas Sowell

Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

William Winter

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.

Algernon Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives

Bram Stoker

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

Jeb Bush

Knowing what we know now, I think it would be inappropriate to sit back and say something is going to happen and it will all work out,

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $US805 million ($A1.08 billion) is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $805 million is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Erik Zabel

I actually have no idea about what can happen on Sunday,

Tim Mead

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Bobby Bowden

It could be a lot worse. We could have two quarterbacks with no talent. What you hope happens is someone will separate themselves from the other.

Anne Hendricks

Kids love it. They get learning experiences out of it. They learn what having a job is. What responsibility is. How that math lesson you hate to do will come in handy.

Jerry Nelson

John Belushi always hated the puppets. He just hated them with a passion.

Tichina Arnold

I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it's always a trickle down effect.

Shania Twain

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

Diddy Puff

Haters wanna stop my lute,they don't want me wearing Sean John, they want me wearing lawn suits.

William Story

Hate me an hour, and then turn roundAnd love me truly, just one minute.

Clara Taylor

Hate is not a word we use in our home. I don't hate them. I just want justice done.

Carolyn Freeman

I thought what a wonderful thing it is to leave a legacy to this world, which he has, because his music is his legacy. I hated to see it just go away.

Craig Venter

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

Stephen Hill

It was hopelessly and piteously overloaded, this was no passenger vessel.

Twyla Tharp

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

Nicholas Butler

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Michael Steele

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

Billy Donovan

He got back to playing the way he normally does.

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Milan Kundera

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Mahatma Gandhi

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.