Famous Quotes & Sayings

Standing Bear

That the Indians possess the inherent right of expatriation as well as the more fortunate white race, and have the inalienable right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' so long as they obey the laws and do not trespass on forbidden ground.

Michel Faber

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)

Karl Kraus

Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.

Francois Rabelais

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

Murray Gell-Mann

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

Latin Proverb

When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden

Al Alvarez

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

John Grant

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Calvin Williams

This is a done deal. Let's not insult anybody's integrity or intelligence. It's a done deal.

Connie Kelliher

This illustrates why workers are insulted by their take-away contract. Our members generated that profit he's being rewarded for.

Rodger Schmidt

There wasn't much talent. I don't want to insult anybody, but it's true.

Sparky Anderson

They're loyal Royal all the way. But, they're not tough fans, a player does not have to worry about being insulted there.

Kim Gandy

an outrage and an insult to the women of this country.

Author unknown

A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

Peter Hitchens

The myth about Muslim tolerance needs to be exploded, Behead those who insult Islam.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Riley Wallace

The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.

Mark Frauenfelder

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

Philipp Meyer

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Charles Stanley

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Charles Spurgeon

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Alan Watts

As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

Alan Watts

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

Alan Watts

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

Alan Bennett

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Alan Arkin

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

Al Sharpton

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

William Penn

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.

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.

Joseph Hume

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

Oliver Goldsmith

Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?

Greg Brunner

You're going on a touchy subject for me here, man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Alton Brown

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Stephen Chbosky

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

John Searle

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.