Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Charles Stanley

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Alan Watts

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Alan Watts

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

Ed Belfour

I'm not a pretty goalie and I don't ever want to be called one, to tell you the truth.

David Viscott

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

David Brooks

It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

Arne Jacobsen

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Rick Bowers

We accomplished one more of our goals. We just have to perform.

Denny Hamlin

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am - I push myself to be better, constantly.

Lauren Worsham

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

Richard Zuschlag

We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Wayne Lee

This will be challenging because it's the highest-altitude landing that NASA has ever attempted.

Jim Peters

The planes they have there are all low and slow. A safe landing rests solely with the pilot.

Mark Roberts

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Linda Relis

I was so nervous, I couldn't watch till the landing was over.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Angela Ahrendts

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

C. S. Lewis

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

William Shakespeare

Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.

Dick Dale

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

Blanka Vlasic

I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.

Jim Goins

They made it interesting. I did know that we should have had fresher legs because we play a lot more people.

Guillermo Diaz

It's tough; sometimes I feel heavy. My legs feel heavy.

William Wyler

It's not over until your legs give out, kid.

Bob Nicholson

This just wasn't our tournament. We had a number of players who played in the world championship and they had the legs. We just couldn't seem to get our legs going here.

Michael Sprung

There seems to be some legs under (the market) today. They seem to be shopping for bargains.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Tom Kennedy

They do put stress on local governments and services like the sheriff's department,

Tim Lockwood

It's their money. It comes from local revenues. They can do what they want with it. It's part of the local-control issue.

David Williams

There was no coordinated national effort. I think that's why people locally remembered this, but there was no national con.

Jean Turner

There will be a separate local option levy budget, separately tracked.

Bob Montgomery

It's about as local as you can get.

Jeff Sessions

Progress will require a united federal, state and local effort.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Charles Spurgeon

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Charles Spurgeon

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

Alan Greenspan

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Alan Bennett

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

John Whalen

We are going to be presenting proposals that tip the scales a little more toward pedestrians and bicyclists.

Clint Hurdle

The top of their lineup was presenting problems.

Tom Shea

We have been very thoughtful about presenting a multipronged agenda.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Ruby Rose

When I was younger, I didn't know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn't really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor.

Al Pacino

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Ato Essandoh

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

Carlos Fuentes

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

Roy Cooper

While many of the projects may have been worthy of consideration, the way they were funded makes them suspect in the public's mind,

Byron Katie

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

E. P. Thompson

We feel that this is a win-win for the foundation, so we need to make sure we're selling the project on all fronts.

Les Claypool

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

Jay Parmeter

It's exciting. It's a big project with kind of an unlimited budget, and you can do everything you always wanted to do.

Gerry Jones

It seems to me we've been doing this project since before I was on the board.

Arvind Parmar

Reaching the quarterfinals of an important tournament like this is fantastic.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Mallory Factor

He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Leo Veness

In life, there are those who are reaching upward, and those who are reaching outward.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Jason Kenney

It's going to impinge on underlying profitability ... profitability is reaching a peak.

Ken Smith

The survey will be conducted from now through May, 2006.