Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Charles Dickens

Our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better

Motto

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Lord Byron

Alas! our young affections run to waste, / Or water but the desert.

Kara Swisher

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.

George Eliot

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Henry Montherlant

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end

H. Hunt

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can equally enjoy the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

John Kellogg

Irritation of the spinal cord, with its resultant evils, is one of the most common of the nervous affections originating in this cause.

Eddie Izzard

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Baroness Orczy

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"...

Ato Boldon

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Bill Nye

If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Mike Babcock

We want him to feel good and be an important part of our team. He told me the other day that he feels he's skating well, and that his leg doesn't hurt. Well that's great news for us. He's dominant in the face-off circle, his brain works all the time; he knows how to play in all situations.

Charlie Crist

I’m not a scientist either, but I can use my brain, and I can talk to one,

Charlie Cox

All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.

Charles Caleb Colton

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

Charles Dickens

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Charles Dickens

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

Charles Dickens

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

David Walker

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Beatrice Webb

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Bear Grylls

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

Carrie-Anne Moss

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

Martin George

We have seen a massive increase in fuel prices.

Ali Larijani

We have said long before that the matter of research is not part of the negotiation, research has its own meaning and it has nothing to do with producing fuel industrially.

Steve Williams

We want more from the chancellor. We are not happy with the levy on fuel tax.

Daniel Gorrell

What they've got to do is talk about fuel efficiency.

Bill Richardson

We're getting a head start in meeting the president's objectives of protecting Americans from possible fuel supply disruptions this winter,

Mike Rizzo

We're hoping to be able to offset the price of fuel ... by having more passengers ride ... instead of having to raise fares,

Connie Brown

A lot of people are rationing fuel out.

Bill Douglass

This dislocation in the Gulf is not going to go away quickly, ... For the marketer, it's a nightmare. You don't know how to price the fuel from day to day.

Lisa Goodman

The person who gave the most money to my campaign, I voted against.

Richard Rosen

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Mark Woodworth

We struggled in the first game. We gave up those three in the sixth and that hurt, but we were already behind.

Bonnie MacPherson

When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I think that gave us a good hedge on the roller-coaster ride that the season was.

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Nic Pizzolatto

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

David Meyer

We remember those who gave their lives and lost their lives. We also remember those touched by recent tragedy.

Kenneth Jay Lane

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.

Michael Scharf

What they really want to do is prove that he gave the order,

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.

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.

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

David Allee

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.

Peter Price

Television is transforming into moving images anytime, anywhere.

Brandon Spincer

I see those images of what's going on. I feel helpless. That's where I live. Those are the streets I walk down every day. Some of those people I see on those images I know.

Morris Gleitzman

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

Cindi Leive

Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated,

Robert Dallek

There's no question that these sorts of television images have a big impact on people and in many respects shape reactions to the White House,

William Butler Yeats

Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

Jon Oringer

Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Trey Parker

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.

Susanna Phillips

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

Peter Clarke

purchase, storage and intended use of that material.

David Ludwig

I shot mom as she was sitting in the chair, ... It was an intentional murder, I intended to shoot them, and I did.

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Sydney Smith

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing

Tommy Franks

Did this go as we intended it to?

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Richard Howard

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Keion Carpenter

They tried to throw it a little more once he got in there. Other than that, it was the same kind of outfit.

David Berry

You can't keep throwing us around. Accommodate your own people.

John Cornforth

You can throw that out of the window.

Brian Schmidt

You can throw it out or you can do what you want.

Derek Jeter

You can throw everything everybody's done up to now out the window,

Kurt Robinson

There were times when I wanted to throw in the towel.

Jack Kokinda

This is the time of year you want him throwing this way.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Robert Jordan

I told him, 'I'm going to be there for you,' ... 'Whatever you throw up for me, I'll go get.'