Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Plutarch

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Plutarch

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

Bhagavad Gita

As a lamp in a spot sheltered from the wind does not flicker, this simile is used for the subdued mind of a yogi practicing meditation on Brahman.

Bella Heathcote

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

Diogenes

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .

Doug Ferrari

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.

Cyril Connolly

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Travis Barker

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Bible Bible

And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

Rush Limbaugh

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

Ivica Dacic

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

Anish Kapoor

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.