Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Denis Waitley

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Bill Moyers

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Bob Riley

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Charles Dickens

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

Charles Dickens

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Charles Dickens

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

Charles Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Alan Patricof

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Alan Paton

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Al Oerter

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Akio Morita

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

David Hume

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.