Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Mother Teresa

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

Lady Bird Johnson

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Marcus Aurelius

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

Marc Guggenheim

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

Joseph Fiennes

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

Queen Latifah

instinct leads me to another flow

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons

Tila Tequila

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

Tim Cook

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

Robbie Fowler

If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back. (on re-signing for Liverpool)

Randy Jackson

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

Nicolas Cage

I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

Noomi Rapace

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

F. Stone

Chris is a very special kid. There are certain things the good lord has given him and he does things very well, ... I wanted him to return kicks just because he's got a gift to do that. I was extremely pleased with all the things he did.

Jacqueline Winspear

I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

Monique Bond

No, no, it's just scheduling. It's just the location, where they can get the trainer available, where they know they'll be able to get a crowd on a certain date.

Justin Gatlin

One thing we don't have that other countries have is discipline, ... You have egos that get in the way, people who want to run certain legs, or who feel they should be on the team when they haven't proven themselves to the point where they're reliable enough to get the stick around.

Marnie Stern

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.

Josh Hartnett

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

Bill Ginsburg

Monica Lewinsky is not someone who would take or steal anything, and I am certain that this report is just plain incorrect.

Ram Kapoor

My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.