Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.

Haruo Shimada

Formally speaking, nothing has changed at the end of the day. But beneath the superficial format, rather clear-cut changes are under way.

Tim Woolston

It's symptomatic of issues going on beneath the surface. They're still trying to get their house in order. Their stock hasn't been doing very well.

Mack McLarty

This move is vintage Jerry Jones. Signing Terrell Owens is stunning in a lot of ways, but not when you know Jerry. He's always been bold, but beneath his larger-than-life personality, he's very, very thoughtful and creative.

Robert Reed

It's a fun story, a real scoop, but beneath the humor we are a company that tries to expand the box. It may take several months just to plan it. When we do it, we want to do it right.

Sophia Amoruso

A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you.

Victor LaValle

'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

Samuel Coleridge

A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!

Edith Wharton

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Denise Levertov

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....

Alan Shearer

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

Charles Baudelaire

I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

Catherynne M. Valente

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

Caspar David Friedrich

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

Benjamin Franklin

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Charles Darwin

Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.

William Shakespeare

Our content Is our best having.

Benjamin Franklin

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Bob Iger

Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.

Bill Gothard

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Bette Midler

Total contentment is only for cows.

Sathya Baba

A man's well-being depends upon his degree of contentment. 

Alain de Botton

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Democritus

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

David Niven

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Dr. Currier

We want to stay exactly as long as they need and not one day more.

Bob Poole

The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.

Carter Jordan

The positives are we got four underclassmen out here to see exactly what we were talking about.

Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

Friso Abbing

We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.

John Cunliffe

We have to find out exactly what's going on with the slide. Geologists say it's still moving slowly.

Friso Abbing

We have to find out exactly what is happening.

Bob Sullivan

We have a stove in there. It's exactly like the school she describes in her book. We twist hay to put in the stove like Laura did.

Francesco Buranelli

We have nearly 8km of exhibitions but even I can't tell you exactly how many pieces we have because even a small archway or a minor fresco is art.

David Icke

How much did Jim Morrison know?

Bertolt Brecht

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bernard Hopkins

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

Chad Pennington

How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?

Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

Charlie Munger

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Charles Frazier

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

Bob Marley

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

Bill Vaughan

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Craig Faulkner

We've got a really tough road but if we win those three I think we can get the No. 1 seed in the district.

Mike Koepp

We're going to have to be road warriors from here on out.

Gerald Cox

It seems like we've been on the road forever. It really does.

Rudyard Kipling

They shut the road through the woods / Seventy years ago.

Jason Richardson

It's the first road win of the season and when you play at the Garden, you always want to win.

Stan Williams

It's an unusual year for us. We've got a lot of road work going on in different phases.

Miriam Landsman

It's a really country-looking road and if they take out all of those trees, it's going to be very sad.

S. E. Hinton

There's a lot of road to go for them and us. But we'll see.

Nora Roberts

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.

Jaime Lerner

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Rudyard Kipling

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.