Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Conquest

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Thomas Jefferson

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Richard Steele

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it

Gabriel Marcel

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Muhammad

The most excellent jihad (struggle) is that for the conquest of self

James Thompson

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Don Martin

That's not going to be an easy conquest for him. He's got a lot of unhappy campers in the trenches.

Algernon Sidney

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Plautus

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

William Wordsworth

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

William Wordsworth

Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!

Harold Johnson

Remember I did my part with the life that I had, and though it was short that's not all bad. Each person must live as he believes, and I hope Old Glory still waves in the breeze,

Bible Bible

And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

Bible Bible

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

Joel Edgerton

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

Chris Richards

We didn't want for them to have that exceptional story -- Glory Road, all that stuff. We don't want to be the team on the movie that got beat, that got upset. We didn't want to be that team.

Ben Jonson

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Richelle Mead

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

Robert Evans

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

Julie Burchill

The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Helena Christensen

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Serge Daney

Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

Gaspard Ulliel

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

Franz Kafka

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

Ingrid Newkirk

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Kevin Kaminski

Bump-outs are probably not in Steamboat Springs for a reason.