Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Schroeder

I would say this year the bloom is definitely off the rose.

Sathya Baba

God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

Vince Farrell

I think the bloom is off the rose of the very, very richly priced 'new economy' stocks. Many of these are terrific companies, many will be here a few years from now. But I question the prices that they all got to.

David Joy

Clearly the far more important factor for tech is the relative strength of the economy. It trumps the dollar situation. But if the dollar improves, it does take the bloom off the rose for some of the sales numbers that companies have reported.

John Palfrey

The bloom is off the rose for the Internet industry. There is a sense that American companies have a higher obligation than has been practiced in China in recent years.

Mark Zandi

The bloom is definitely off the housing rose. Housing peaked last summer and has been weakening ever since.

Cathy Green

These planned store remodels and the introduction of Bloom and Bottom Dollar are indicative of Food Lion's intense focus on serving the diverse range of customers in the Washington region. This effort represents a major commitment by Food Lion to this region and our customers.

Stephan Pastis

I want to shake things up like Bloom County did, ... When I was a kid I loved Calvin and I loved Far Side and I loved Bloom County. And I loved them because they took risks. You never knew what you were going to see that day. And there's not a lot of strips that do that now.

Jerre Jones

They cut them while they are still buds so that they will bloom once people put them in vases. They're very beautiful. Everybody loves them.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Erich Fromm

Infantile love follows the principle: ""I love because I am loved."" Mature love follows the principle: ""I am loved because I love."" Immature love says: ""I love you because I need you."" Mature love says: ""I need you because I love you.

Adi Godrej

A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.

David Hunter

It's usually a good indicator, the tourist market, and the property market follows that.

Billie Armstrong

It's the new 'Thriller,' ... 'Jesus of Suburbia' is really a long song, so already it's quite a task. You can't think of it as making a video, but a short film, and that's what Sam did. There's dialogue. It follows the story of the song more so than the other videos from American Idiot.

Charles Talleyrand

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows

Gary Wolf

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

Giordano Bruno

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.

Daniel Bruhl

We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

William Joyce

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

William Joyce

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

Sibel Kekilli

I have to make sure I don't eat too much chocolate. You can't imagine how hard that is for a German to not eat chocolate.

Victoria de los Angeles

I mean a German person would never do it like that, it would be very serious, you know, systematic, but a Spanish person it takes another kind of way.

Joschka Fischer

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Mark Twain

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Paul Celan

Death is a master from Germany.

Mark Twain

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Samuel Johnson

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Robert Penn Warren

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

Phillips Brooks

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness

Rachel Steer

Oh my goodness! I just noticed they said she was sick, and I saw her last night ? and she didn't look like she was getting sick.

Attorney Garnati

It was their idea. They did it out of the goodness of their hearts.

Eric Boyle

Thank goodness this isn't the end of February.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Jane Austen

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

John Willard

We like to say thank goodness for that.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richelle Mead

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Vincent Kartheiser

Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

Warren Buffett

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

Vladimir Lenin

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

Vladimir Lenin

The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.

Vladimir Lenin

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.

Wayne Dyer

By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

Walter de La Mare

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Russell Crowe

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Ron Conway

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Samuel Richardson

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Robert Pattinson

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Robin McKinley

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Wilmer Valderrama

If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.

William Hazlitt

True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

Nancy Werlin

From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?

Jose Marti

Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose.