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?

Barbara Deming

After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason: wanting to keep people from harming others.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Jared Diamond

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Vincent Bugliosi

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

Michael Chabon

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

Joan D. Vinge

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

Rose Kennedy

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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." ()

Ciara

I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.

Peter Brand

I used to fence and I really didn't care where I fenced. I fenced in basements.

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.

T. S. Eliot

In life there is not time to grieve long.

Sylvia Browne

Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone.

Sylvia Browne

I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.

Tim Gunn

Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

Robert A. Heinlein

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

Roger Rosenblatt

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

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.

Andre Gide

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Andre Gide

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

Anais Nin

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

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.