Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gurnall

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

Arthur Koestler

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction

Jonathan Sacks

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

Laurence Sterne

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

Bible Bible

And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

Ahmed Qurei

The French and Palestinian doctors have concluded that there was no known cure for the illness that afflicted the president,

M. Wolfe

That's an awful lot of people to be afflicted by the disease of compulsive gambling. Wouldn't you call that an epidemic?

Bible Bible

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; / And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Bible Bible

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Mark McClain

I think we can avoid bankruptcy. But people are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with the realities of the financial situation.

John Reid

It is not a matter of casualties, but a matter of trying to avoid innocent casualties of terrorism.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

Rauf Denktash

Just to come to the negotiating table I cannot say that my state does not exist. I demand the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is either recognized or taken into account.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same.

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Hugo Ch

It cannot be that the countries that have developed nuclear energy prohibit those of the third world from developing it,

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Randy Johnson

There are situations where employers cannot find American workers to fill jobs.

Lofa Tatupu

I thought they were going to let me go today, but they are being cautious right now.

Mark Richt

He's banged up and he's sore, ... We've got to see how he progresses. But if he's in a weakened position, you could make it a lot worse so we're being cautious with it right now.

E. Hicks

In terms of threats we are in teeny tiny beginning. We are very cautious to make it into more than what it is. It's just starting to get to the radar.

Lakshmi Mittal

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

Michael Kupinski

They are looking for a good sale of Toy Story one and two (to be re-released next quarter), and while they are cautious about it, they are not overly concerned about it.

Scott Norton

They would like us to give (districts) some guidance (that) is reasonable. I think it would be reasonable for us to say, 'You should be cautious in promoting students who score unsatisfactory in English and math.'

Wade Flaherty

It's big for everybody in the room. With this team, you've got to be cautious of rebounds because they get a lot of offence from crashing the net.

Marcus Gronholm

It was a good fight until yesterday night, Loeb was very good here. We have won this rally many times and I'm happy for that. Today we had to be cautious not to hit any stones or holes which could do damage to the car, it was not fun to drive the last stages.

Alan Skrainka

It just reflects Wall Street's manic-depressive mood. In the meantime, you have some selective cautious buying, but I think people are much more cautious and not just jumping in on any dip.

Casey Neistat

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

Albert Einstein

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Edgar Mitchell

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

Sonam Kapoor

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Ben Rogers

We are comfortable with compulsion in other walks of life, such as jury duty or the requirement to educate our children.

St. John

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

Princess Diana

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Colin Raye

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

M. Scott Peck

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Honore de

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

Mother Teresa

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Mary Morrissey

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.

Jason Fuchs

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

John Rhys-Davies

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

Mark Strand

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Iyanla Vanzant

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

J. L. Austin

Fact is richer than diction.

Erin McKean

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

Vivian Stringer

I think it all comes down to fundamentals. This is not a time to start forgetting things. It will be a matter of inches and seconds that will win the championship. You work hard all year to get to this point, and you have to be able to sustain. You can only escape for so long.

Kevin O'Donnell

His past is his past. You can't escape that. Go out and speak to him, hopefully get the reports and make sure that the system treats him just like any other defendants -- fairly.

Kevin O'Donnell

His past is his past. He can't escape that.

Rita Ora

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

Al Gore

to consolidate its power and escape any accountability for its use.

Andy Coulombe

He was losing 2-1 in the third round and got an escape with about 15 seconds left in the match and then took him down. But that didn't matter because we needed a pin to win the match. He got him on his back and pinned him with about four seconds left.

Nancy Grace

I'm just stunned that he would risk his own escape to go back and seek vengeance.

Tod Martin

After the game, I told our kids, 'We escaped with the win and our lives. . . . It was scary.

Tracy McGrady

It was just good to get out and have some sort of escape from all of the things I've been going through personally.

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Stephen Jackson

He wants to play with us. He loves his teammates. He has no problem with his teammates. He told me that personally. He wants to come back and play.

Rod Carew

He cared. I love him. I'm going to miss him.

Peggy Fleming

He just loves what he's doing. And that rubs off on his skaters.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Daniel Logan

I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'

Nadia Giosia

I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

Woodrow Wilson

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Jeremy Jordan

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.