Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.

Rudyard Kipling

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Lamar Alexander

Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

Jon Meacham

There is nothing new under the sun.

Mike Quade

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

Jude Law

You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.

Mark Batterson

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

Ned Beauman

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

Seth

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Ovid

Novelty in all things is charming.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature is fond of novelty.

Terence McKenna

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

Madeleine M. Kunin

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Paul Rodio

There are so many ifs with this group.

Rob Gronkowski

If I don't get a Wahlburger in me soon, I'm gonna go ballistic.

Ric Flair

If you don't like it, learn to love it!

Roald Dahl

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

Venus Williams

I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

Robert E. Lee

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

W. P. Kinsella

If you build it, they will come.

Robyn Hitchcock

If you do things out of time you're weird.

Sarah Dessen

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.