Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hayden Christensen

That is what this film is about. It is about Anakin becoming dark, and all that that entails, ... It gets back to the basics that make 'Star Wars' great. Good versus evil, all that good stuff.

Romeo Crennel

We're still in the hole and we've got to battle to get even again. When you have a performance like we had, everything needs work. We have to get good at the basics and try to give ourselves a chance.

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

John Kenneth Galbraith

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

Pema Chodron

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Pema Chodron

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Alice B. Toklas

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Diogenes

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Samuel Johnson

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Samuel Johnson

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Wendell Berry

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Robinson Cano

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.

Jose Andres Puerta

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Howard Dean

At this point, my position is pretty delicate, ... If I come out in the newspaper (with my opinion), it may not end up helping New Hampshire's position.

James Wolfensohn

At this moment the world is willing to help at the highest level,

John Stephens

It took us seven years to saturate Northern California.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

Alexander Ahndoril

We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.

Matt Smith

I am a terrible sleeper.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Alphonse Karr

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

Angela Bassett

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

Alton Brown

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Raymond Carver

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Sam Houston

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

Tim Storey

We can't fear change...we must embrace it. Sometimes you have to walk on water.