Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Plater

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Shari Arison

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Edward Hirsch

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Robert Owens

We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out a slowly dying cause,/ And ancient forms of party strife;/ Ring in the nobler modes of life,/ With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Jill Lepore

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

Mary McFadden

In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.

Matthew Fox

I think when people watch this show and get to the end of the episode, they're dying to find out what's going to happen next week and they really don't have any idea.

Walter Long

I think that dying is something that Napoleon has thought about from the very moment the sentence was pronounced in his case.

Raymond Chandler

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Evelyn Waugh

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Kenny Perry

His dying wish was to meet me and play two holes.

Kurt Cobain

His dying seemed to give total strangers a sense of integrity they never had wanted while he was alive.

Gibson Sibanda

If our president is not released immediately, the dying regime must brace itself for a long winter of intense but peaceful mass action.

Eunice Newcomer

I know dying has got to be a process that no one really wants to go through but it's just not fair for the survivors to have to make this decision.

Rod Grover

I'm glad you said that. I've been dying to get up there for a hike.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Mary Bailey

I went through working in many mediums before settling on wood. I like it as a medium. It is non-toxic, versatile in the forms you can get, and has a nice tactile quality.

James Thurber

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thomas Jefferson

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Lisa Stanford

It's one of the worst forms you can have. There's not always a good outlook of this.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Cyrus Broacha

As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

Andrew Williamson

Banqueting forms an integral part of doing business.

Alan Greenspan

of interest-only loans and the introduction of more-exotic forms of adjustable-rate mortgages are developments of particular concern.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

Erich Merkle

I think October was the bottom. It could pick up modestly in December.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Josh Bolten

These are not cuts, these are modest reductions in the rate of growth.

Mark Twain

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Bouthaina Shaaban

What do you do if the other party won't talk?

Richard Posner

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!

Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

Richard Whately

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Richelle Mead

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Richelle Mead

Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

Ronaldinho

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Traian Basescu

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Wladimir Klitschko

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

Mickey Spillane

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

Tiffany Jackson

Sometimes our doorbell will ring at 1 in the morning.

Douglas Hamilton

That's how we think the jovian rings are formed,

Richard Grimes

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Dawn Staley

This team is the most undisciplined team that we've had. They're just really undisciplined. They're not a team. This is the first team that's not a team, so we're going to get to the problem. We'll slowly but surely get to it, but we'll get to it.

Bob McNamara

It's a little on the sweeter side, and a very pretty color.

Heinrich Hoffman

Anything to me is sweeter / Than to see Shock-headed Peter.

Rebecca Patterson

The women don't get off smelling sweeter than men.

Bill Self

From my standpoint, this was sweeter than any of the other ones that I have had, because we started 1-2.

Jeff Ballard

It doesn't get any sweeter than this. It really doesn't.

Ilian Evtimov

It couldn't have set up any sweeter than that.