Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Rumi

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul...

Rumi

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

Rumi

Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

Rumi

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Jackson Rathbone

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

John Green

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

Nate Silver

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Patrice Leconte

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

Pope Benedict XVI

Mission is a workshop where there is room for all.

Shia LaBeouf

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Mwai Kibaki

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

Lisa Alther

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Archie Panjabi

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

e. e. cummings

If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you

Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Dolly Parton

I can't do nothing just a little.

Angie Martinez

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.

Amory Lovins

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Anthony Anderson

I provide a little comic relief.

Thomas Paine

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.