Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Kathleen Brown

Usually, the limiting factor for roses is water. If the rose is not getting enough water, it will let you know. Bent neck is the common sign that water uptake is not adequate, and the upper stem bends over because it is the weakest part.

Art Pulaski

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends whichever the way the corporate winds blow. Just a few weeks ago, the Restaurant Association, a major opponent of the bill, hosted a fund-raiser for Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Rose Taylor

I wear a bowling glove 24 hours a day. When my wrist bends it hurts, so I don't want it to bend.

Gary Price

I think you need a legal chiropractor to make your way through some of the bends and twists of the case.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As unto the bow the cord is, / So unto the man is woman; / Though she bends him, she obeys him, / Though she draws him, yet she follows; / Useless each without the other!

Alex Berenson

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Allan Cunningham

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

Ellen Key

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Nicolas Roeg

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Jim Paxon

With the fire spreading in so many directions it will be a long time before we can get it contained.

Marcia Adler

We can pull all the facility services in one place, so that we no longer have students running in so many directions to get their wellness needs. It is our opportunity to give students more services and big space in a more modern fashion.

Steve Jones

Frankly, the directions this program could take are limitless.

Van Baker

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Cliff Lee

It is about doing skills, but it also really about teamwork, following directions and so forth.

Carlos Santana

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am at one with my duality.

Sathya Baba

Heart knows neither duality nor the limitations of space and time.

Robert Graham

Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.

Guru Singh

The Lord forgives some, and unites them with Himself, they forsake their duality and sinful ways.

Todd Rundgren

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

Ian Mckellen

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Gail Carson Levine

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Zoe Sugg

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

Zadie Smith

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Hugh Jackman

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

Bob Gunton

Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

Jan Hus

I trust in the Lord God Almighty ... that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.

bell hooks

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

C. S. Lewis

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

Amy Waldman

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

Dean Koontz

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

Ben Jacobson

It was a little redemption after the Creighton game.

Yael Stone

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

Walead Beshty

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Brina Palencia

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

David Steinberg

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Carrie Fisher

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Carl Reiner

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Bette Davis

Yes, burn your bridges.

Anthony Storr

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Carrie Underwood

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

Carl Sagan

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.

Bill Vaughan

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

William Shakespeare

IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

William Shakespeare

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

William Shakespeare

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Dick Armey

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Diane Setterfield

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

David Sedaris

The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.