Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

Sharon Horgan

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Mao Zedong

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Katey Sagal

I was very rebellious.

Beatrice Dalle

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

Martin Freeman

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

William Shakespeare

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

C. L. R. James

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Oswald Chambers

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Julia Quinn

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Bruce Schneier

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Marcel Proust

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.