Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Edward Hirsch

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Ray Johnson

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Maajid Nawaz

Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.

Jeff Mittie

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Andrew Zimbalist

Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

Peter Cardillo

We're seeing some profit taking but a strong build-up in inventories could send the price of oil under $60 and that could reverse market psychology.

Margaret Whitman

We'll see which one of those works for us and is cost-effective and that's how we'll refine our marketing mix going forward,

William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

David Gross

AARP does not think the solution is to regulate drug prices. We think there are market solutions.

Steve Cernak

A big part of our market is people who don't want to fly.

Patricia Chadwick

It's just another number that the market will go through.

Jim Hertel

It's as competitive a (grocery) market as you'll ever find in the U.S..

Andy Parsons

A lot is to be said about getting it to market sooner, but it's the question of what you are going to play on it that matters.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

John Winn

We're going to take that into account, ... with open arms.

Tony Padilla

We're going to see if we can open things up with Tiger throwing the ball.

Lynn King

We're going to open a playable field, but we've got more work to do.

Dee Brown

When we come out and he plays aggressive, that opens it up for other players. When he plays like that, the sky's the limit.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Mitchell Posin

It seems like what Bret's saying makes sense.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Ken McNeely

We simply don't think Californians should have to wait that long.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Robert Henri

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Mark Holleran

The street is a tough place to be.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Larry Nelson

Essentially, we are migrating to a 28-foot-wide street in all residential neighborhoods.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

T.O. Sterrett

There's a lot of talent around, but sometimes talent can't find opportunity.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Swen Nater

The talent is better but your teamwork is not.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Thomas Jefferson

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Billy Donovan

So much of it right now has nothing to do with the talent level. It has to do with their makeup. It has to do with what they're about.

Lee Smith

This is a win-win for the region. She has so much talent.

Charles Dickens

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

Charles Dickens

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens

It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.

Alan Greenspan

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Alan Bennett

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Al Seckel

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

Al Lopez

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

Chris Chocola

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

Chris Christie

I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.