Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ismail Kadare

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

Giraldus Cambrensis

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

Katherine Anderton

The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there is relatively little old growth left.

Bhagavad Gita

The ancient seekers of liberation also performed their duties with this understanding. Therefore, you should do your duty as the ancients did.

Michael Armstrong

The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.

Steve Downs

The Ancient Order of Hibernians in Albany has a strong interest in promoting public awareness of the Wounded Warrior Project so these brave men and women receive all of the assistance needed to resume their lives.

Jay Johnson

the ancient craft to its rightful place as an art form. In the show, he takes us on a multi-dimensional journey that combines his skills with a parade of characters that range from a subversive monkey to a withering tennis ball.

Thyagarajan Satyamurthy

We could never study an ancient tsunami without having some man-made materials surviving from that time. This temple is our link to that.

Martha Beck

As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.

Saudi Arabia

who boast of friendship with the United States.

William H. Wharton

Yes! the door of emigration to Texas was closed upon the only sister republic worthy of the name which Mexico could boast of in this new world.

Bern Williams

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

Tom Collen

I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it.

Alexander Lukashenko

There is no confrontation in our country -- neither racial nor religious. There are no wars on our land, ... Name another post-Soviet state which can boast the same values.

D. James

What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting

Terry Denbow

We're not apologizing for it. We boast about it. It's an efficient use of time and resources.

E. F. Benson

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

Eliza Haywood

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

Jack Hanna

We have a little armadillo named David now. It's a true story - they bred right on his desk.

Hugh Wirth

The problem is these dogs are bred solely to fight, so they have a very low threshold of tolerance of other dogs and if they feel as though they're threatened in any way, this genetic conditioning kicks in and they become a raging beast,

William Cowper

I was bred to the law, a profession to which I was never much inclined, and in which I engaged, rather because I was desirous to gratify a most indulgent father, than because I had any hope of success in it myself.

William Congreve

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Chris Larsen

Until now, financial institutions have controlled who is able to obtain credit and the rates people pay. Over time, this one-sided control has bred inefficiencies and excessive margins -- leading to higher rates for borrowers, and restricting people who have money to lend from entering and generating income from this vital and lucrative market.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Scott Anderson

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

Iggy Azalea

I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

Bertrand Russell

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

Marquise Gray

We're winning, but we've got to do it in better fashion.

William Shakespeare

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...

Maurice Maeterlinck

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

Leo Theyskens

We just want to try and move forward in a positive fashion and get ourselves up the table. But in an honest way.

M. Wolfe

White is going to be pushed so hard in the fashion media I think it's going to be a winner.

William Shakespeare

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

Deborah Durham

Manners are how you show how you're going to relate to someone else.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no nobility with bad manners.

William Gilbert

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Duke of Wellington

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Charles Dickens

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

Andrea Yates

They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.