Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ames

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

John Green

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Michel Onfray

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Art Buchwald

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Anton Chekhov

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Bonnie Raitt

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Gil Scott-Heron

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

Adelbert von Chamisso

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Matic Kralj

I was aiming high, but my stick cracked and I went short side.

Jordan Tata

I was aiming for the corner, and it would end up off the corner. I figured I'd just start it down the middle and let it work to the corner.

Dave Wilson

He was just a raw-boned kid that loved the game and never took a play off. Coming from a small town, he had not learned a whole lot about football. So he would always want to know, 'Coach, should I take a 6-inch step, should I take a 12-inch step, what's my aiming point?' It was like coaching a kid in youth league that wants to ask you a million questions.

Ric Sperling

He did what great players do. He put the team on his back, and carried us. We've been aiming for this all season long. We thought we'd have a good chance to win if we were able to score a couple of runs.

John Burke

If you remain too local, you become limited and parochial. In the other direction, you can become too detached from the people you are aiming to serve.

Fernando Alonso

I have scored 18 points in two races, which is a fantastic start to the season. I am aiming to win in Melbourne.

Patricia Petty

I'm very happy, period, because my goal was to have a better record than 6-10 of last year. If we have a winning season, then that will be what we've been aiming for to have constant development and improvement.

Tiki Barber

I'm sure that is what he's been aiming to do. Kerry is the kind of guy who just wants to win all the time. That's why I loved him.

Roger Ashby

I'm sure Kevin will have an eye on next year. He's brought in two or three players already and they'll come to Manor Park aiming to cause an upset so we must perform to our maximum.

Ariel Sharon

The Palestinians will always be our neighbors. We respect them and have no aspiration to rule over them,

Bill Bryant

Our aspiration is to be the largest, most dynamic, vibrant mobile community offering to consumers. Our starting point is a mobile entertainment service, and that is a steppingstone to a broader conception of mobile community.

Laura Hillenbrand

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

Jiang Zemin

It is the common aspiration of the international community to safeguard the Security Council's authority when dealing with significant issues like the Iraq issue,

Hu Jintao

We're pleased with the recent sound development of Sino-US relations, ... We both believe it's the common aspiration of the two peoples to maintain sustained, healthy and stable development of bilateral ties.

Hu Jintao

Your visit attracted much attention worldwide, and the document of 'common aspiration and prospects for cross-Straits peace and development,' which we jointly issued with a view to promoting the benefits of compatriots on both sides of the Straits, is of great significance to pushing forward the cross-Straits relations on a path of peace and stability,

Anna Jameson

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Gerard Houllier

There's a great aspiration to get fourth place, which means every game has a lot at stake,

Tom Courtenay

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's impact on the Twins organization, state of Minnesota and upper Midwest is significant and goes well beyond his role in helping the Twins win two world championships.

John Tyndall

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Derek Feltner

Jake and I are beyond the point of telling each other what we want to do. I know it sounds strange, but we just know each other.

Ed Cange

Jack was a monster. He led us in scoring, but beyond that the number of rebounds he got and the defense he played was incredible.

Marco Coleman

I would say the difference between Coughlin and a guy like Marty was Coughlin took it a little beyond the football field,

The Committee

Journalists have become extremely important democracy advocates and they will have impact beyond actually what we will see today,

Richard Grasso

I think it is way beyond that at this juncture.

Jim Cameron

It can't be fixed. It's beyond the stage of tweaking.

Wes Miller

I always dreamed of playing in this tournament and here at Greensboro. It is still beyond even what I imagined it could be.

Emile M. Cioran

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Sylvester Stallone

I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

Michel Foucault

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

George Carlin

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Jack London

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Oliver Friedrichs

It really generates a lot of network traffic. It's really just going to slow down Internet performance.

John Keeling

It probably generates more room-nights than an All-Star Game.

Roger Gibbins

Ultimately we want to invest it so it generates income and then be able to use that income for a variety of purposes within the province.

Enrique Pena Nieto

The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.

Mike Conway

He's the team. When he bowls, he generates the team.

William Schlesinger

My wife and I put (solar panels) on our roof and that generates some, though not all, of our power.

Ron Perlman

I don't think anything is ever going to replace the human heart and what that generates in terms of performance.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Dana Quigley

I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hope I have the same impact on Tim as I did Paula.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Cokie Roberts

He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Chris Coghlan

There is a kind of sense of urgency. We do need to win two of three and hopefully even sweep.

Mike Ackerman

I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here.

Dusty Baker

He wanted to play. He didn't want to be out too long because then you lose your stroke.

Larry Sandburg

We've done that three times now. The only two loses we've had were the other two.

Ken McCloud

To get here and lose is all right." ()

Chanda Gunn

I think we were disappointed, obviously very disappointed, to lose the semifinal, so we wanted to come out and show what a special team we are and I think we did that.

Hilary Swank

I think it's unfortunate that things are seen as winners or losers because in the end, it's the performance that matters.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Jordan Zuppe

We made up our minds we weren't going to lose again.

Kevan Barlow

I didn't lose no pep in my step. If we can get together on offense, we can get the same things going.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

P. J. O'Rourke

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

Tupac Shakur

There ain't no place like paradise.

Marcel Proust

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

Jacque Fresco

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

Emile M. Cioran

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Matthew Fox

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Louise Penny

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Billy Tubbs

There are several teams that could step up and win it all. Northwestern was picked to win it, and they (the Demons) have been pretty impressive, but some other teams have been impressive, too.

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Mark Valley

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

Nicole Vaidisova

In the second set, I picked it up very fast, just dictating play, so she didn't get any rhythm,

Dwight Gooden

if police had picked you up, we wouldn't be talking right now.

Ruslan Fedotenko

I'm not going to say I picked the corner, was going for top shelf and all that. I'm trying to be honest.

Mark Rutte

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Richard Cobden

You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.

Kevin Rand

We're taking our time with him. He's too valuable a prospect not to take your time with him. We want to make sure everything's done right and he can come back as well as can be expected.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

John Carioba

There are not many prospects in the short term.

Kenichiro Sasae

There has been no breakthrough to this point, and the prospect is not bright.

Richard Perle

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Rebecca West

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

William Jennings Bryan

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Woodrow Wilson

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

William James

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Robin Green

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robert Schumann

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William Whewell

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they must be apprehended and analysed according to some Conceptions which, applied for this purpose, give distinct and definite results, such as can be steadily taken hold of and reasoned from.