Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Mark Twain

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Oliver Herford

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Tom Bodett

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Daniel Yergin

A more relevant description would be a plateau in production capacity that might be reached in the fourth or fifth decade of this century.

Marianne Williamson

As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Manute Bol

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

Mary Martin

This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work.

Phil Crosby

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Jackie Young

The teachers union worked diligently during the last 21 months to secure a contract that will take care of the community, students and staff and make sure everything is equitable for everyone.

Dale Jr

The target is to run as good as you can every week. Everything else kind of takes care of itself.

Randy McClure

The thing that I'm most proud of, is tonight we got five kids in double digits. It's what we've been doing all year long. They don't care who scores and that's what I'm most proud of. They just play ball." ()

Ernie Passailaigue

After a while, they're going to drop by the wayside. The marketplace will take care of that.

Vic Tarasik

The most important thing we take care of is your immediate need, your transportation. You probably spend as much time in your car as you do in your home. It's an extension of you. It's important to you, and it's important to us.

Utu Langi

I think it holds a lot of potential for the future, however they are able to divide the money.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Mark Murray

Technically, this is simply what's called the 'answer' to the complaint. So it is not Microsoft's full response and all the company's legal arguments.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Carl Cornwell

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.

Candace Cameron Bure

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Irish Proverb

You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Jim Corridore

We think that a full and rising backlog and margin improvement should help Boeing do better than its forecast.

Kim Schuette

We didn't play bad; we just didn't play a full seven innings.

Elif Safak

After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

Dodie Smith

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Ann Voskamp

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Susan Griffin

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

Storm Jameson

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

Stevie Smith

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Sri Aurobindo

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

Richie Sambora

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

Sallust

Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

D. A. Carson

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Confucius

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Ann Voskamp

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Andrew Wyeth

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

William Shakespeare

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

William Shakespeare

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Chauncey Billups

Somebody is always going to come up big in the stretch. We never know who, but somebody will come up big.