Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a ""crowned head,"" although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester:""If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester.""""The reason, Sire, that you would thrive,"" The fool said --""if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit."" --Oogum Bem

Paula Mitchell

Knowing that my mother's alive and how she fought her way out, that's helped me a lot, ... We've heard so much bad news all week, we needed some good news.

Bill Clinton

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

M. Wolfe

GW is out, so it's anybody's. That's what we want. We're trying to stay alive and get an NCAA bid.

Mike Williamson

He's keeping us alive for stretches of games when we're not playing our best.

Dan Daniel

There is more of a diverse group in The Gulch than anywhere else in Nashville. It's an interesting, alive community and ICON is the first of many changes down there.

Michael Barnett

I can leave but I won't leave. My city is drowning and burning at the same time. We are the only Internet connection still alive in the city and we're going to stay here because our customers are counting on us.

William Sheridan

I am alive because someone was kind enough to give me their heart.

Ben Smith

I think it's a good thing for them to keep up. It opens your eyes to different aspects of biology.

Roy Verley

He was a great business leader, but I think he'll be remembered most as someone who truly embodied the best aspects of the HP Way personally.

Alison Nordstrom

He consciously tried to preserve aspects of old Paris. For example, he didn't shoot the Eiffel Tower.

Tony Buzan

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

Maggie Jones

There are so many positive aspects to a small-scale wind farm.

Bob Wright

Having all of the distribution and all the commercial aspects lined up with the content should make us a more effective organization, give us a chance to make faster decisions or make everyone feel comfortable about who we are.

Leslie Williams

I think the main thing that's going on is people want the experience of living in a multifamily downtown, but they want to bring with them certain aspects of their lives, ... They had dogs in the suburbs, and they want to have dogs in the city.

Mike Sullivan

I thought Bergeron was one of the best players on the ice, ... in all aspects of the game. There isn't any aspect of the game we can't use him.

Mohamed ElBaradei

What might be considered one of the few positive aspects of 'Chernobyl's legacy' is today's global safety regime.

Kelly Rowland

It took a long while for me to know that I'm beautiful. I remember going through this phase when I was younger of wanting to pass by mirrors and not look at them. That was so ridiculous. I've learned now that beauty starts from within.

Kelly Rowland

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

Bruno Heller

Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same ... there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.

Lauren Bacall

I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.

Katrina Kaif

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Susan Ross

Having to choose between goodness and beauty is a false dichotomy.

Patrick Biancone

He's a beauty. He has everything, just a lovely animal. The mother was great and we're taking a shot.

Miuccia Prada

I am always researching new ideas on beauty and femininity and the way it is perceived in contemporary culture.

Rohit Shetty

Hema Malini and Nutan were my childhood crushes! I met Hemaji once when dad took me to the set of a film. Both these ladies stole my heart with their beauty and grace.

Dax Maier

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into the river. And so I just kept on looking up and got directions, and then next thing you know I was on the gondola and they brought us down.

Chadd Moore

James brought him to me. I saw he wasn't paying no attention, so I just took a chance and stole the ball.

Keith Johnson

John brought it out front and I crashed the net. I was yelling for the puck and he got it over to me.

E. Hicks

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the minor league system.

Matt Williams

John has been brought in to learn about international preparation and at this stage it is just part of his development. But we would be looking for him to be knocking on the door of international selection in the near future.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Charles Sims

I think it's a big victory for Rosie. Who doesn't?, ... Rosie didn't want this fight. She wouldn't have brought this lawsuit if they didn't sue her (first). She just wanted to show that the claims were unjustified.

Robert Lewis

He led one public life ... but there was a second side, a hidden side to Henry J. Lyons, a side that caused him to be brought here to this seat,

Art Hogan

(Greenspan's) a proponent of what productivity gains have brought to this new economy, ... Of all the things he says, the least hawkish is when he talks about productivity and the new economy. In terms of Wall Street's reaction, I wouldn't say we could garner anything but a positive feeling.

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

E. Helm

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, but we don't want it all in downtown in one area.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Larry Pope

If you don't know the street names and routes, it's difficult to make a decision that will highly impact the citizens that the system serves.

Margot Wallstrom

If we want to have the support of European citizens we have to engage with them, but we also need leadership and that's something we're lacking,

Joel Baker

I'll focus on being more responsive and accountable for all the citizens of Smith County.

Ashley Painter

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Ed Cogswell

I wouldn't say it's common - it really is dependent on a large number of factors,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Kenneth Chenault

My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Bob Hunter

Hockey is steeped in our city's history and is a common touch point for Torontonians. It's time that Toronto hosted the world juniors. We know Torontonians will embrace this championship tournament, which will leave a lasting legacy for our world-class city.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Tyler Perry

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Kay Redfield Jamison

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Sam Brownback

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Thomas Hahn

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge. The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

David Bodde

In my opinion, that has to change. If we are to grow as a region as a tech-based economy, and a knowledge-based economy, we have to embrace those ideas, or at least be willing to be open-minded or experimental about that. It's not a question of are we ready for this in some cultural sense -- enough people are for this to happen. It's one we have to embrace.

Tim Callahan

It's just another instance where the cultural wars are going to be fought out in our classrooms.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

Niklas Zennstroem

This is a cultural problem in Europe. (People) want to keep all their comforts, all their security, vacations, all their job packages.

Margaret Anderson

They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there,

Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Rob Corddry

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

Truman Capote

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

William Wordsworth

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Valentino Garavani

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Walter Map

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

William Penn

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

Ben Kingsley

If people are generous with their information, then the actor can use that information lovingly and respectfully.

Chad Pennington

I'm proud of the response and I'm not surprised. Robin and I received a lot of support while we were here. People were so generous to us and other players here. Once people find out what it's for, they come through. This is a way to give back to the community. People are interested and want to be a part of helping improve quality of life.

Ruth Collins

Oh, my God, it's terrible. She was very generous and charitable, a very lovely person.

Mick Mandl

Wouldn't it be great if it was somebody down on their luck who got the $365 million? Hopefully, they would be generous and leave us a tip.

Christian Camargo

Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

Dick Gephardt

So this is what the lobbyists and other wealthy individuals got for their money. They get their overly generous share of the tax bill.

Emmylou Harris

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

David Stewart

There are generous people in this community. We have a pretty tight application process, we want to know where our money's going.

Katie Holmes

He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend.

Richard Baxter

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

Rebecca West

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

William Wordsworth

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

Rob Bell

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

Robert Jeffress

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

John Milton

All is, if I have grace to use it so, / As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.

Michael Steinberg

a kind of lightness and grace that was in the music-making.

Og Mandino

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

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.

Atharva Veda

Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Trip Hawkins

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

Sarah Kane

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Robert Owen

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Saint Basil

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

Yanni

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Wole Soyinka

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Duncan Hunter

I think it shows they were trying to save American lives when they did that. Unfortunately, those pictures were released.

Jack Miller

He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.

Adriano Moraes

Rob is a legend. He's been saving lives for 30 years and never missed a season.

Bob Denver

Our lives will never be the same without him,

Tracie Beasley

Our lives are so full. For people to get outdoors and recreate is so important.

Courtney Anderson

I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.

Jeff Ward

This is aimed at those small and medium-sized livestock producers, ... This could be a valuable tool for them.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it

Collin C. Peterson

It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

Steve Ralston

I was in the right place at the right time . . . if I had missed that one, it would have been embarrassing,

Dinara Safina

I think I played well today. I just missed some really important shots.

Thomas Ken

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Jeff Burton

He said it in a way that you couldn't miss it.

Buck Showalter

He's a treasure. Every day that passes, we realize how much we miss him.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

John Shadegg

I think we need an idea person. It's something we've been missing for a long time.

Claude Tarver

I think a lot of them are wondering if they may have missed out on him.

Kitty Wright

I think a lot of people misunderstood, (thinking) that they were going to be there forever. Now that they're gone, they're missing them.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Richard C. Armitage

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Wayne Rooney

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Umberto Eco

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

John Lawson

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

David Whyte

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.

Michael J. Fox

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Kristy Curry

I have seen her do that on film.

Joan Smith

There are so many goodies to look at. We share because it is so rich, but it is very good.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Tyler Perry

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Will Smith

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

Warren Buffett

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Yehuda Berg

Share love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.

Bob Chernecki

The corporation ... didn't want to share it with the workers.

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

Will Durant

Education is the transformation of civilisation

Tullian Tchividjian

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

Saul Bellow

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Louise Erdrich

The universe is transformation.

Nhat Hanh

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Paul Eldridge

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Joseph Prince

You are transformed by beholding, not by working.

Elizabeth Gilbert

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Richelle Mead

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

Richard Bach

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

Samuel Rogers

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

Rebecca Wells

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

Roger Moore

Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.

Kurt Sanger

In times of yen weakness, Lexus is just a treasure chest,

P. L. Travers

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Bryant H. McGill

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Granth Sahib

Devotional worship to the Lord, Har, Har, is an overflowing treasure

Richelle Mead

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively,but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

Ronaldinho

I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.

Robert Trout

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Willa Cather

New things are always ugly.

William Cobbett

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

Rodney Dangerfield

You know you're ugly when you go to the proctologist and he sticks his finger in your mouth.

Sarah Dessen

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

Margo Timmins

When we do get to the point where things aren't good, we know how to smarten up and fix it before it gets ugly.

Neil Cavuto

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

William James

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.