Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

Charles Caleb Colton

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

Alan Watts

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

Eddie Irvine

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Michael Connelly

When you surf, the ultimate goal is to get into a pipeline where the water circles around you and that's all there is. In writing, it's the same thing. You want to get into this pipeline where the story is circling around you and that's all there is. That is writing nirvana to me.

Agnes Smedley

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

Bipasha Basu

It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.

Beth Moore

We know we're coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.

Tom Ferrell

A lot of people lately have been circling away from me. Just lucky that when he got his shots I was able to get away and then get my shots later.

Hugh Johnson

A lot of traders will be circling like vultures, to find the companies that are the target of tax selling.

Mike Malaise

There's a lot of these shady lobbyists and special interest groups seeing the possibility that their sugar daddy might go down, and they're circling the wagons. We don't have to be out there convincing people that we're not criminal, the way Tom DeLay does. That takes a lot of money.

Will Turpin

It wasn't purposeful, but it is the way we're feeling right now. Back to basics, circling the wagon to come home again. It wasn't purposeful, but it is the vibe over here.

Cheri Yecke

Sad to say, with few exceptions, the circling vultures are left-leaning women.

Mary James

The process was as egregious as our original grievance. To us, it has been a matter of (school system officials) circling the wagon, digging in their heels and protecting themselves at all costs.

Howard Gordon

We had been circling another story line for the first two or three weeks we got together, and it didn't really excite us. Then somebody said, 'What if the president is shot?' It really was one of those epiphanies that suddenly crystallized.

James Mooney

Having sung it through once they raise their voices to their full strength and repeat it, this time slowly circling around in the dance.

Sean Hill

I haven't seen a replay, but he was circling one way and I was circling the opposite way on the same track. I didn't see him just until the last second, and he never saw me. It didn't feel like a whole lot of me, but he must have had a lot more weight on his leg because he obviously is in rough shape.

Charles Stanley

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Alan Watts

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Alan Watts

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

Ed Belfour

I'm not a pretty goalie and I don't ever want to be called one, to tell you the truth.

David Viscott

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

David Brooks

It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

Arne Jacobsen

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Rick Bowers

We accomplished one more of our goals. We just have to perform.

Denny Hamlin

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am - I push myself to be better, constantly.

Guy Ritchie

I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.

Jan Egeland

In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.

John Hoeven

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Terence McKenna

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Sandra Forman

It's the ultimate high. It couldn't get better than this.

Neil Stern

It's the ultimate credibility to say, 'Go see who we are,'

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

John Eccles

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Viscott

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

David Hockney

Water colours are wet colours in water.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details

Agnes Varda

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

Chanakya

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Charlaine Harris

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.