Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demi Lovato

I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

Demi Lovato

I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

Demi Lovato

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?

Alejo Carpentier

In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

Alberto Giacometti

The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.

Alberto Manguel

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Alberto Manguel

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.

Paul Levinson

The Sept. 11 period really was an aberration - hurricane Katrina has reawakened the sleeping giant, and I believe we'll now see a return to the Watergate era of hard-hitting reporting in the United States.

J. Wince

The short and long of it is I don't believe the music should be about the person who made it. You shouldn't care what they look like or what they believe in.

Mark DiCamillo

These elected officials just can't believe their recognition levels are so low. But this state is so big that to be known to a majority is a real accomplishment.

Willa Ford

These cuts are a painful last resort, and I'm deeply mindful of their impact. In the long run we will create far more stable and secure jobs. We all have to change, and we all have to sacrifice, but I believe this is the path to winning.

G. H. Hardy

The security issue is driven by fear. I don't believe SDMI will come out with any prohibition for playing back the music that's already out there. It's too early to predict how piracy will be minimized. There will be devices with no security that are just as safe as secure ones.

Mike Baker

The stock might have limited downside from here. However, we believe earnings could continue to fall due to collapsing margins.

Geoffrey Porges

The stock is really hard to call right now because it's still expensive. To get excited about it you've got to believe that there is another shoe to drop for one of the big drugs.

Jeff Wallace

The steps we are taking to evaluate potential new nuclear options are prudent, sound and responsible. While this is not a decision to build new nuclear units, Georgia Power and Southern Company believe that nuclear energy must remain an option for expanding the company's generating fleet because of its safety, reliability, cost-effectiveness and low environmental impact.

Bobby Miller

The status quo of a country will be sound when? its people believe that the end result of hypocrisy is more disastrous than that of true justice for all.

Thierry Breton

We are trying to use them to change the country,

Daniel Katzive

We think it's really too soon to see a definitive change from the BOJ. It's more of a second quarter story.

Lynne Sipiora

We see an influx whether the weather is hot or cold, we see a change in the number of people in our facility.

Alain Vigneault

We score three goals a game and we've got to find a way to win it 3-2 and 2-1. That's been our identity all year long and it doesn't seem like it's going to change down the line here.

Linda Chandler

Values-based organizations are the most enduring, the most sustainable and consistent. Yet they remain flexible. Individuals or organizations that twist and turn with every new idea , every change in the direction of the wind, are like ships without rudders. They end up going round in circles, never quite reaching their goals.

Ed Gillespie

Vice President Gore needed to change the dynamics of the debate.

Kevin Payne

Very little will change in the way we do things.

Jim Dempsey

VOIP will even further change the equation here. The phone conversation, which used to be ephemeral, can now be like e-mail.

Charles Dalfen

We don't yet see the need to change the rules for services delivered on the Internet. That isn't something we have to worry about at the moment.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Adolf Hitler

I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!

Adolf Hitler

The heaviest blow which ever struck humanity was Christianity; Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.

Adolf Hitler

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

Adele Faber

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Adam Braun

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

Abraham Lincoln

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

Anika Noni Rose

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Anne Lamott

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

Anne Lamott

Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.

Anna Benson

Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

Anna Akhmatova

I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.

Anna Akhmatova

I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.

Anna Akhmatova

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Anna Akhmatova

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Ray Bradbury

"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?"

Ralph Bunche

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.

Rajneesh

Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness, that we are traveling on holy earth, that whomever you are meeting, you are meeting God - there is no other way; only faces are different, but the inner reality is the same - all your tensions will disappear. And the energy that is involved in tensions will start becoming your grace, your beauty.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

Don Wright

This is what I trained for. I'm here to help people.

Jonathan Kelly

I try to do anything I can to help the team. Maybe I won't score as much, but I can lead the team in rebounding.

Debra Gill

We've always been the kind of people who like to help others. Now, it has been just one thing after another, but we know there are people still doing worse than we are.

Stephanie Childs

Ours simply complements what USDA has done. I think what USDA is doing is great, but the private sector needs to step up and help USDA spread its message.

James Comey

We are releasing this information to help people understand why we are doing what we are doing,

David Cook

We're doing this to keep Jill in the minds of the Iraqi public, so that if people were to see her they would know who she is and could help her.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Tommy Stalnaker

I hope we don't have any more that size any time soon.

Charles Djou

I hope we can work something out by the end of the month.

Bud Selig

I hope we can. This has been a long journey. ... I don't see that we have a choice.

Warren Lawrence

I hope we can take this momentum into Tuesday night and get us a win.

Aaron Boone

I hope we can still sneak in there. Hopefully, we can get it done and come in here and watch TV.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.