Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

Robin Hobb

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Steve Truglia

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.

Latin Proverb

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping

Leonard Bernstein

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

John Cusack

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

Peter L. Berger

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

Pema Chodron

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

Kevin James

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

Bobby Holik

Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful.

Stephanie Coontz

The only thing that can replace (the emptiness) is a new sense of community. It's more than the sum of the individual losses.

James Blake

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

Michel Lu

It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.

Danial Shapiro

We look at different facets, different relationships, the same relationship at different points in time. We look sometimes at the whole town and sometimes at individual relationships, and by the time we're done you have a sense of having met the people of this town.

Ross Carlson

We look after each other like any other team would, I believe. But there's like a point where there's no individual on this team.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Woody Harrelson

The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.

Robert D. Kaplan

The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.

Walker Percy

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

Milan Kundera

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

Octavio Paz

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

Julia Gillard

The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

Julia Gillard

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism,

Paul Morley

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

Oprah Winfrey

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

Margaret Thatcher

Failure? The possibilities do not exist.

Placido Domingo

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.