Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynne Truss

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

Marc Ash

This in not just a condemnation of the Holocaust. It is a condemnation of all the atrocities in the past and a reminder that terror still surrounds us.

Adrian Mitchell

It's about sitting faithfully in England while thousands of miles away terrible atrocities are being committed in our name.

Joan Roscoe

The bus boycott was instrumental in the desegregation in the community. It is unbelievable the atrocities people were living with in that day. The book tells of some of the harrowing experiences they had but I believe most of the boycotters knew the risk of their participation.

Jan Schakowsky

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

William Doyle

What happened that day, the rescue attempts and the generosity, what they've done, that's what should be there, period, ... Not talking about atrocities or blame America.

Sydney J. Harris

There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

Samantha Power

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

John Updike

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

Robert Dale Owen

It is idle to await unanimity.

African Proverbs

The crows, the idle person grumbles. - Yoruba, Nigeria

Gustav Mahler

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Fiona Apple

If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.

George Herbert

An idle head is a boxe for the winde.

James Malone

One of our philosophies is that idle plants stay run-ready, have a skeleton staff and keep the plant in the most optimal position without the machinery being run.

Bruce Hoffman

It doesn't really give us any more indication of whether this was a plot that was derailed or preempted, or a plot that was more in the realm of an idle daydream.

Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

Robert Ringer

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

Sarah Shahi

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

Warren Buffett

If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

Albert Speer

I knew that the National Socialist Party was anti-Semitic, and I knew that the Jews were being evacuated from Germany.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Lord Chesterfield

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Steven T. Katz

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

Eva Green

All my jewelry has stories.