Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Clara Barton

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Alexander Pope

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

Alexander Pope

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alex Haley

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Albert Schweitzer

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.

Debby Ryan

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

Susie Bright

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Tacitus

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Sylvia Plath

Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.

Sylvia Plath

I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.

Sylvia Plath

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

Swami Vivekananda

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is in our blood.

Rumi

I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.

Tom Robbins

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

Rumi

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Rumi

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

J. K. Rowling

He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.

George Herbert

More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]

Jose Marti

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir

Henry David Thoreau

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

Norton Juster

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.