Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Barton

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Rem Koolhaas

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

Taylor Momsen

I like to wear a lot of baggy things. Like, I buy guys' clothes, like T-shirts, and I cut them up and wear them loose, but my blazers have to be really fitted. I also like layering things and really short skirts - or showing off my legs.

Stephenie Meyer

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

Rick Riordan

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.

Tana French

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

Rupert Everett

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

Rumi

Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.

Tom Robbins

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Tobe Hooper

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light

Simon Winchester

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

Rajneesh

Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.

Rajneesh

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

Rajneesh

The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects surrounding it, the lamp will still go on giving light. In the same way, if you remove all objects from your consciousness, all thoughts, all imagination, what will happen? – only consciousness will remain.

Rajneesh

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Rajneesh

Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your consciousness heavy, insensitive; and you need a very sensitive consciousness - very light, very loving, very compassionate. It is difficult for a non-vegetarian to be compassionate; and without being compassionate and loving you will be hindering your own progress.

Rajneesh

In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Scientists say that all the electricity that is in your body, if put together, can be used to light a five-candle bulb. It is not much. Quantitatively it is not much, quantitatively the atom is not much, but qualitatively... If it explodes, it has tremendous energy in it.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Thomas Carlyle

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Thomas Carlyle

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Thomas Carlyle

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Tony Levin

Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what weve done in the past.

Tony Judt

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Tony Campolo

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Tim Cox

This is the first time when we can touch people when they have been devastated.

Mark Serwotka

This is not a union that is struggling. People see we are standing up for what they want and they want to join.

Dominique Moisi

This is not a triumph for Chirac. People didn't go to vote.

Bruce Babbitt

This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many people. The problem is there's too many cars.

Julie Taymor

This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.

Bill Cheney

This is simply what a recession is like. This report represents real people and real pain, especially around the holidays.

Barbara Schneeman

This is really good. People are being vaccinated.

Jaromir Jagr

This is probably the most surprising season, my season and the team's. For a lot of people around the league.

Harry Price

This is so wonderful to see all of these people who are working to preserve our history,