Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Brewer

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

Phil English

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing. It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

Phil English

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing, ... It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

Jose Gomez

It was a totally technical rebound after the decline of Thursday. The stocks that stood out were blue-chips that were battered previously, especially the service and telecommunications sector.

Eugene Kennedy

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

Peter Cardillo

Dell Computer ( DELL : Research , Estimates ) is battered down here, revenue growth put into question as the whole technology group has been put into question but I think, you know, going forward that Dell will be a winner here and I think it should be bought at these levels.

Alan Greenspan

The system was holding up ... the American economy kept getting battered and battered and battered and it was still standing and indeed, as of Sept. 10, it was still standing,

Edmund Waller

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.

Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Alan Paton

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

Chris Cleave

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.

Jones Very

The poets of the present day who would raise the epic song cry out, like Archimedes of old, "give us a place to stand on and we will move the world." This is, as we conceive, the true difficulty.

Marilyn Marinelli

We are a voice crying in the wilderness.

Jamie Carragher

Whenever we play Chelsea, we always seem to get penalties that aren't given, but we don't cry too much about what happened.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

Marie de France

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

Cesare Pavese

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Alan Watts

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Alan Parker

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Alan Ball

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

Al Pacino

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Edmond de Goncourt

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Woody Allen

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

William Shakespeare

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

William Shakespeare

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

Bobby Douglas

We wrestled pretty well the first round. We had some moments of despair, but overall we had a pretty good round.

Catherynne M. Valente

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Mark Thompson

The outcome of the incident is pretty severe and it's tragic that (White's) getting screws in his face and plates, and you put a guy in hospital like that, I'm sure he's feeling about that. We want him to play really competitive hard footy on the weekend too.

Jonathan Klein

The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.

William Gray

We are going to see the return of some of these types of storms. People have to face up to it. The insurance industry has a major problem.

Scott Hand

Where Inco has operations, it has legacies, and we are going to have to face up to them in a proper and responsible way,

Luke Nosek

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Carolyn Porco

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

Carolyn Wells

Circumstances alter faces.

Charles Stanley

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Charles Stanley

Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine?

Charles Spurgeon

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Charles Spurgeon

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

Charles Spurgeon

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Charles Spurgeon

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

Charles Spurgeon

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Charles Spurgeon

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Helen Sharman

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Neve McIntosh

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.

Joe Jurevicius

We'll see if that keeps happening, ... You have to do what you have to do. I'm not going to worry about numbers. I'm just going to go out and do my job.

Carol Carter

Working keeps us young. We don't want to be the type of people to retire and sit around and do nothing.

Leon Panetta

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

Chet Huber

As you drive, when you come to a point where you should turn right, the radio mutes and the recorded voice tells you to turn right and keeps telling you where to go until you get to your destination.

Rig Veda

A man who is desirous of success and strength should work incessantly just like the wheels of a chariot which keeps on moving.

Daniel Woodrell

This happens to me all the time: I think I'm working on one thing, but this other thing, whether I want it to or not, keeps coming through.

Dio Dante

It's mental, getting used to the tempo. It keeps getting faster. I just try to keep up.

Dennis Quaid

It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Ann Jones

we have neglected that area. And it will take a big project to really turn it around.

John Updike

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

Ariel Sharon

Now they're really disillusioned with him because he is doing the opposite. They feel quite neglected because the state used to nourish them. But at the end of the day, they are a small hard-core.

Darryl Paulson

For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have to go to work to support the family,

Debbie Carter

She did not look like she was neglected in any way.

L. Ron Hubbard

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.

Carl Jung

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Edgar Mitchell

I've been very involved in this quantum holographic formalism and helping to explore it as explanatory of the very root of our perceptual capabilities. It is postulated, for example, that this very basic entanglement, at the quantum level, at the level of subatomic matter, is really a part of quantum mechanics.

Benjamin Franklin

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

Ben Affleck

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Tony Skinn

Well, being from our conference, I know they're rooting for us, anyway.

Charles Blake

It strengthens me to be rooted in the word of God.

Dick Reed

They are part of the root of what we are as a country, as a nation,

Jamie Silverstein

It was fun. I think for us this is really about the experience, and we're here to root on the other Americans.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles Spurgeon

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Charles Spurgeon

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

William Shakespeare

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

William Shakespeare

One sin another doth provoke.

William Shakespeare

Sin will pluck on sin.

Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Charisma Carpenter

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.

Byron Katie

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

James Ragan

They're kind of a victim of their own success.

Johnny Jessop

They're just as much victims as we are.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Deepak Chopra

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Robert Kiyosaki

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Alan Watts

We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

Alan Moore

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Alan Moore

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

Alan Moore

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Alan Greenspan

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

Alan Colmes

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.