Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Charles Spurgeon

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Ball

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Al Pacino

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Alan Moore

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

David Henry Hwang

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

Barry Commoner

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Jeffrey Skilling

The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.

William Shakespeare

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

William Shakespeare

Love reasons without reason.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Chad Smith

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

Charlie Munger

Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle...

Charlie Munger

Well, the questioner came from Singapore which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy and therefore he referred to 15% per annum as modest. It's not modest-it's arrogant. Only someone from Singapore would call it modest.

Bill Wyman

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've got multi-agency teams doing what they do,

Bruce Lewis

We've tried to set it up where we put teams together that are pretty evenly matched.

Bob Lennon

We'll see the course, and we'll see most of the teams that we'll see at district, too.

Dave Harris

Amador and Bret Harte are the teams to beat.

Ozzie Guillen

A lot of teams are going through this,

Philippe Boucher

A lot of teams are changing, and they're going to have new faces,

Sean Carney

They got it back together pretty quickly. They showed why they are one of the better teams around.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

Ed Begley, Jr.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Bruce Bochy

We have to get on track with our pitching, and we think we will.

Billy Wilder

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...

Bill Maher

Eric Holder, our attorney general, says the Mr. Snowden will be brought to justice. Just as soon as we can find someone who can track his calls and read his emails.

Bill Bixby

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

Bernard Malamud

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Jessie Evans

We started to get a little impatient. And they showed they are a veteran team.

Dick Durbin

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Bob Hope

I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.

Clay Walker

We're a veteran line. We should get it done.

Miguel Olivo

The veterans do the same things. It's a part of baseball. We can't say it's just because we're young.

Arthur Koestler

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Jan Karon

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Carl Sandburg

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

Carl von Clausewitz

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.