Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

David Rockefeller

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Jack Shea

The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.

Louis Orr

We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us.

Lee Byung-hun

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Charlie Fink

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

Rebecca Murrell

We have a standoff of witnesses. It's never easy to tell who's telling the truth.

Robert Wagner

It's not a structured thing. I just meet and greet and roam around talking to people.

Al Madrigal

I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.

Lord Byron

If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

John Hutton

We would greet him every day as he got off the elevator.

Charles Caleb Colton

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Charles Dickens

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

Charles Dickens

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

Charles Dickens

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

Charles Spurgeon

The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

Charles Spurgeon

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

Charles Spurgeon

The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

Charles Spurgeon

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

Alan Hovhaness

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Alan Watts

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

Chinua Achebe

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Charles M. Schulz

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

Catherine Bell

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff

Bill Russell

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

Richard Browne

It's exciting. I'm immediately on the Internet, and I'm just jumping up and down.

Jeff Clarke

They were ecstatic. They were jumping up and down.

Paul Nolan

It was a sweet round of jumping and we will see how he comes out of it. I would like to go to Cheltenham in November with him and he will probably run once before then.

Tom Verica

Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars in it.

Ben Whishaw

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

Charlie Cox

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

Catherynne M. Valente

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Death devours all lovely things.

Aidan Gillen

Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

Michael Lerner

It's just so sweet, ... The meat comes out so lovely and rare -- it has a very interesting and wonderful flavor.

Cameron Watson

It really is a lovely tribute to this town.

Steve Adlard

It was a lovely goal, just textbook, really. It doesn't have to be struck hard.

Anthony Wall

It was a lovely day out there for me.

William Shakespeare

Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

Jeaniene Frost

...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

Jasper Fforde

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

John Betjeman

I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.

James Otis

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

Eckhart Tolle

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

David Eddings

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

David Eddings

Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

Walter Bagehot

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

Charles Dickens

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

Charles Dickens

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

Charles Dickens

A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Charles Caleb Colton

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Stross

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

Charles Spurgeon

As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine.

Shakira

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Dusty Rhodes

I like Stephanie, ... She reminds me of Saphire a little.

Toba Beta

Strong will, always makes me touched. That reminds me about many 'fall and rise again' in my life.

Mary Gordon

It's like walking into a cathedral.. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and important thing.

Ginger Mullins

For everything you find, it reminds you of something you lost.

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Pauline Frommer

Even now we look at it and it reminds us of our trip there.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

William Blake

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Max Mosley

The idea could give rise to a commercially successful series, which may stand out from the other one-make series in the world of motorsports.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

David Duchovny

I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.

Barbra Streisand

I never sing in the shower either.

Julio Franco

What can you say? You take a shower and go home.

Doug Parker

He's still on the streets of New Orleans, hasn't had a shower since Monday.

Kathleen Battle

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

Josh Brolin

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

Fernando Alonso

I will not have a shower all weekend now.

Jimmy Fallon

I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous.

Prince Royce

I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Morris Peterson

When we were off to our 1-15 start I think that's when they did the poll.

Becky Hammon

We're starting to come together a little more. We're starting to put it together.

Keith Guttin

When we get that done, we'll start turning it up as a team.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Charles Sturt

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.

Alanis Morissette

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

Alan Bennett

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Al Pacino

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

David Wain

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

David Hume

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

Denis McDonough

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Maggie Q

You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

Casey Affleck

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

Daron Rahlves

It's tough. There's a lot of terrain, it's steep, it's icy. This is what you want. It makes you wake up and charge.

Alex Rodriguez

I've never had this before, so it's kind of a new thing for me, ... We'll see how I wake up in the morning. I should be in there tomorrow.

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Austin Carlile

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

Tyra Banks

I don't wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones - I paint them on!

Andrew Rannells

I can't wake up at all without caffeine.

Thomas Nagel

The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Brenda Johnson

It was surreal, just watching her. But this wasn't her first rodeo.

Felipe Alou

It would've been worse if I was watching the game, but I didn't see any of it.

Pete Carroll

The whole world is watching us. You never feel you can say enough about this stuff.

Kenneth Warren

The whole country's going to be watching this.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.