Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Tess Gerritsen

In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.

Joseph Addison

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

George Gissing

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

Peter Medawar

The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

Phillips Brooks

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

Marcus Aurelius

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

Pema Chodron

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

Kenneth Branagh

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Bill Evans

I would've been very happy to go into halftime at 6-0, but we had a couple upperclassmen get their bells rung and we didn't have the depth to cover it up. That touchdown was a back-breaker,

Sophie Kennedy Clark

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

William Faulkner

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Jimmy Smith

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

Dan Stevens

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

Kevin Towers

No, and I don't plan to, ... Everybody talks about how great it is to hear Hell's Bells and his entrance into the game, but as soon as he is about to toe that rubber, I'm gone.

Mark Cooper

The Bells want to capture rent on innovation.

Greg Gorbatenko

The Bells need IPTV. They are losing subscribers to cable. It's extremely important for them to trump the offerings of the cable guys and the only way to do that is through video.

Pete Wilson

The Bells and rural companies are much more insulated from competitive threats because they tend to be in the bundle business. I think the stock prices now reflect longer-term optimism.