Famous Quotes & Sayings

Atharva Veda

Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the scholars and engage ourselves in virtuous deeds.

Richard Morris

It really is a clash of titans. And, there's a very sexy score.

Ratu Tavanavanua

As long as it does not clash with the Pacific league, we should be all right with it.

Russ Mitchell

It was weird coming into a clubhouse where three or four languages were being spoken. They live in a different type of society than we live in. Sometimes there is a clash of differences, but it has been a great experience.

Rudy Giuliani

This is not a clash of civilizations, ... It's a clash between murderers and humanity. It's a matter of justice leading to peace.

Krista Tippett

One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.

John Fitzgerald

We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

H. Hunt

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner

Ken Auletta

The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them,

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Nicholas Jarecki

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Gavin Hood

We grew up watching American films and I hope that Americans will watch our stories.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Lin Yutang

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

Robert Pattinson

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

Yves Saint Laurent

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

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.