Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Bennett

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Alan Alda

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Al Ries

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.

Robert Bennett

We want them to completely change the way they handle organs. We want stricter testing and we want families and patients to be notified if there is a problem with a donor, so that the family could make the decision, not the doctor.

Tom Harp

We want to totally change the look from a 50-year-old neighborhood to a neighborhood that is state-of-the-art and fully improved with nice front lawns.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Sapna Satagopan

The targeting point is about getting them to interact more with the interface and get them to your Web site.

Rene Cook

Some people say they could never work with their spouses. We have a passionate life that we love sharing. But a lot of people would be surprised by how much we don?t interact at work.

George Meyer

This is a whole different kind of program. They interact with teachers quicker and interact with the kids.

Jan Chipchase

The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

Liz Ryan

You're looking for the tone of the people, how they're dressed, how they interact with one another. The lobby is a wonderful fishbowl into the culture.

Enric Sala

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

Shahid Kapoor

I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

Julie Foudy

She (Finch) is a wonderful person, and they want to see that. They want to interact with her and talk with her.

Paul Walker

The acquisition of Interact presents Sage with a number of significant opportunities.

Clive Sinclair

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

David Sutcliffe

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

Richard Griffiths

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

Rev. Barham

The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.

Claire Tomalin

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

Alexis Smith

There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got the roles I should have gotten.

JJ Feild

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

Larry Martin

When we lived in Memphis, Jane and I often talked about moving to Knoxville when we retired.

Patrick Moynihan

We're going to send to the Senate not only the first lady of the land, but she will be the first lady of New York,

Rick Vymlatil

Years ago at this fair, I had a promoter tell me he could get me a young lady named Reba McEntire. I could've got her for $5,000, but we wanted big names that year, so we passed.

Elian Gonzalez

They really psychologically traumatized Elian, ... This lady (Reno) to me doesn't have a heart.

Carine Roitfeld

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Laura Bush

substantial. Obviously, the First Lady is very popular in Texas.

Joan Allen

a lady who couldn't keep her legs together.

Sherri Shepherd

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Pat Pope

We will be running the Lady Razorback on Thursday, and the Razorback on Friday.

Rusty Davis

We were leaving Richmond at the time it was due; I talked to the lady at the office, and she said she'd get back to me, and she never did.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Debbie Stabenow

At a time when so many Americans struggle to pay for the prescription drugs they need, we must look for ways to lower the price of those drugs.

Trilby Lundberg

All point to lower prices at the pump,

Shawn McCambridge

This indicates lower use for the first quarter of this year.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Dudley North

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Mark Mahaney

The valuation has always been reasonable on this name. The multiples are materially lower here. There's room for upside.

Mark Mahaney

The valuation has always been reasonable on this name, ... The multiples are materially lower here. There's room for upside.

Martin Jacques

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Jude Law

What's it all about, Alfie? /Is it just for the moment we live? /What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? /Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be kind?

Gideon Gono

This is a modest payment meant to demonstrate our sincerity with respect to our international obligations,

Jeremy P. Johnson

It's one of the most wonderful places to run, and everyone is so supportive of you. It's where I'm meant to be.

Kathleen Hohl

It's a dispensation. It's meant to be observed in an appropriate way.

Lance Armstrong

It really meant a lot, and for a number of different reasons,

George Williams

It probably wasn't real official, but boy, it meant everything to me.

Damian Miller

It was a special day for the team. It was just meant to be our day.

Tony Kaye

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

Proverb

Some things are better praised by silence than by remark

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Jim Calhoun

Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Bonnie Brady

I travel enough that receiving faxes has always been a problem.

Sophia Amoruso

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Joseph Roth

We are still receiving applications every day. It's wonderful. We are interviewing still.

Donald Miller

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Alice Walker

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Robert Herrick

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Stephen Sondheim

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Meredith Ostrom

Im too sensitive and too sincere.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

Jim Blake

As part of the deal, there's a social mobilization effort.

Jason Calacanis

Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Daniel Kahneman

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Simon Sinek

We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.

Ruth Bernhard

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status].

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Waters

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

John Stossel

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

Mark Zuckerberg

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?