Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

Octave Mirbeau

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Omar N. Bradley

The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us. ...

Rachel Caine

Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

Peter Ackroyd

And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

Lilith Saintcrow

The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to take Christophe seriously when he smelled like baked goods. I wondered if other djampjir smelled like Hostess Twinkies and sniggered to myself.

Peter Kropotkin

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

Peter Gabriel

I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Harvey Mackay

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Mahatma Gandhi

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Omar Vizquel

I'm pretty sure he can do it just because of his natural talent,

Randy Moore

It's natural to do that in Northeast Texas.

Devin Hester

It's really not any secret. It's just natural instinct. I'm a visual-type player who can see things before they happen.

Steve Brady

It's part of who we are and what we do, so it was a natural for us to make the decision, ... It took us about 20 seconds to say, 'What can we do?' The next piece was, 'How do we do it?'

Fred Schmidt

It's a natural progression to where the opportunities exist.

Herschelle Gibbs

It's disappointing. I was trying to keep my end up as long as I could and at the same time play my natural game, which they didn't make too easy. We didn't get enough partnerships together, like they did in their first innings.