Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Nancy Peterson

It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.

Fernando Meirelles

But then, watching the whole film, it was like hearing my own voice - like the director preaching to the audience. So I started to cut and in the end, I think it became more of a love story.

Anushka Sharma

Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.

Mike Pierce

The record became a cult classic. I had no idea.

Ken Norton

We have been pleased with the way he has developed into the vocal leader of our defense. Through the spring and summer I think there was some question about him being our guy, but early this season it became clear to everyone he was ready for the job. The first half of the season he was our best football player on the defense, period. ... He's been a rock and everyone has leaned on him.

Gal Luft

There is a lot we can learn from Brazil. They are doing great things,

Butch Harmon

The reason I stand before you today the man I am is because of my brother. A lot has been written about what a great teacher Dick was. He was my teacher. He was more than a brother. He was more than a friend. He was a mentor.

Judy Gold

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

Stacey Bendet

Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit... So, that's what I set out to do.

Domhnall Gleeson

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

Mo Charlo

We had a great year. We won the regular-season championship, we won the tournament and we won 27 games. You can't take that away. We accomplished a lot.

Rob Bibler

We had a great year. It was a great success.

Herb Sendek

We had a great understanding of what we were trying to accomplish. But we do understand we have a long way to go.

Amy Stewart

We had a great turn out, we had perfect weather, and all the kids ran great today,

Salim Khan

I pray he was not there when there was the earthquake, ... How can I know?

Mahatma Gandhi

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

Mother Teresa

In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ himself. There is only one voice which rises above the face of the earth, the voice of Christ. Prayer is oneness with Christ.

Peace Pilgrim

When I started out on my pilgrimage, I was using walking for two purposes at that time. One was to contact people, and I still use it for that purpose today. But the other was as a prayer discipline. To keep me concentrated on my prayer for peace. And after a few years I discovered something. I discovered that I no longer needed the prayer discipline. I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument through which only truth can speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

Sean O'Casey

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

Neil Peart

More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'

Neil Peart

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

Mustafa Akyol

The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?