Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurel Lea

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.

Homer

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

Idleness, women, disorder, a foolish partiality for one's own native place, discontent and timidity are six obstructions to greatness.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

Barham Saleh

I recognize there is discontent - for political reform, for the need for fighting corruption, for improving services. But that can not justify this violence of a few.

David Rockefeller

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress

Julie Garwood

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

Denis Leary

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Charlaine Harris

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

Jan Brett

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

Margo Wootan

It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at Americans and say, 'Eat better.' It takes more than that.

David James

There will be a lot of fingers pointed obviously because the four goals we've conceded have all been from set plays,

Roy Barnhart

It sat around here for years. I wouldn't use it. I ripped my fingers up and everything. If you had a glove on, you were going in with it.

Ronald Kessler

We plan to stay with this group over the next two years so that we can keep our fingers on the psychological pulse of this population.

Trombone Shorty

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Kiesza

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

Adlai E. Stevenson

To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety

Sheri Miller

You have to make a fist before you can punch a wall. Here's an opportunity for intervention before things escalate.

Andy Roddick

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Steven Erikson

Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

Stephen King

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

Robbie Williams

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

James Snyder

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.

Jens Lehmann

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

Charles Dickens

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

Guy Ritchie

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

John Winn

We're going to take that into account, ... with open arms.

Charles Caleb Colton

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Charles Caleb Colton

Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

Alanis Morissette

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Alan Watts

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Alan Moore

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Robin Cook

We want the peace talks to resume on all tracks as soon as possible,

Chogyam Trungpa

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

Marc Forne Molne

A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.

Rita Moreno

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

John Aniston

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

Rita Moreno

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

James Jones

you probably know more 'Star Wars' quotes than I do.

John Metcalf

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Tom Watson

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

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.