Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

John Podhoretz

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

Mary Catherine Bateson

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Pope Benedict XVI

My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity. They cannot, however, be understood apart from a profound reflection on the innate dignity of every human life from conception to natural death: a dignity conferred by God himself and thus inviolable.

Paulo Coelho

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Pliny the Elder

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

Terry Pratchett

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Elin Hilderbrand

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

Ryan Reynolds

I have bullshit moments every once in a while - like every actor does.

John Milius

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Carlisle Floyd

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

Christopher Hitchens

There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.

Christian Dior

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

Georg Brandes

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.