Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

Robert Cormier

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Richard Hooker

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

Richard Whately

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Reinhold Niebuhr

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Reinhold Niebuhr

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

William Mapother

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

Virginia Woolf

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

Richelle Mead

I’m sorry ma’am,” I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I’d spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts?

Richelle Mead

Adrian looked away from me and down to where my hand covered his. I blushed and pulled away. “Sorry” I’d probably freaked him out

Richelle Mead

That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move." He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind." "Hey, she's not in charge here," I teased. "She's just a soldier." "Right." He lightly brushed his fingers against my cheek. "Sorry, Captain." "General," I corrected, catching my breath at that brief touch.

Tyler Perry

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

Troye Sivan

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.

Rick Riordan

Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked-" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry.

Walter Bagehot

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

William Bolitho

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

Samuel Butler

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

Helen Bolling

In that instance I realized that I was going to live or die. It's kind of like your experience, Susan.

Brent Petway

It was just an instance where two competitors were playing each other hard. And sometimes things can get a little haywire. I just have to do a better job controlling myself.

Garrett Hardin

The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all, without limit.

Regina Lewis

A site like John Kerry's for instance is very well organized, very straight forward, and that could be paying off for him. It is not as sexy, and it is not talked about as much, but it's awfully practical.

Richard Preece

One of the species on the Azores returned to Europe. It seems that having got there in the first instance a very long time ago, it relatively recently migrated back to Europe.

Charlie Smith

We'll be the first in this instance and that in itself is a rarity. I think we can be quite proud if we do it.

Steve Moore

We have the responsibility and legal obligation to protect the university's trademarks, which in this instance is the 12th Man.

Seth Shostak

The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes.