Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

T. S. Eliot

Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

Neal Shusterman

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Nadine Gordimer

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Oliver Goldsmith

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

Pope Benedict XVI

While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.

Terence McKenna

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Lewis H. Lapham

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

Karen Maitland

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

Brandon Sanderson

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Brian Andreas

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

Carson McCullers

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Charles Darwin

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Bobby Vinton

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

Alice Barrett

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Andy Roddick

I kind of know youre only as good as your last result.

Richard MacDonald

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

Chasity Rutjens

I just want to make sure it lasts me the rest of my life so I don't have to return to work.