Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Saint Augustine

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

John Bercow

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

Russ Feingold

The president is not telling us the time frame ... what's happening is that the American public is despairing of the situation,

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!' ... I was freaking out, pretending like I didn't see her. Then Ashlee Simpson walked right up to me and was like, 'L.C., love your show! I watch it every week with my friends!'

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Michele Perry

I was like a little kid because I said, 'Oh my God it's Jackie Joyner-Kersee!' ... I had never seen her in person. I only saw her on TV. I was kind of star struck.

D. James

I was led by God to do this.

Joey Skaggs

King of the world wouldn't be enough. I'd have to be god of the universe (the Wizard of Oz would suffice).

Lao Tzu

Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

Robin Wright

Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.

Jean Piaget

Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.

Ethel Mumford

Knowledge is power if you know about the right person

Nick Harkaway

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

A. Hodge

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Gene Taylor

What you lost was a lot of local knowledge,

Rusty Wallace

I think by the end of the year, he'd have a lot of knowledge. He'd be up on the wheel and ready to go then.

Persian Proverb

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Will Grace

Jack-This makes me feel like a man. Will-Yeah. Jack- No, seriously, I'm going to need a man after we're done.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Kevin Lowe

I would stake my reputation on that man because I know him, and I know he hasn't done anything wrong.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Mike Gruber

He was a callow young man, not physical. Kind of the opposite of what he is now.

Peter Hobson

He didn't whimper, he didn't cry, he didn't beg. He took it like a man.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Rick Berry

He is the president. We have to respect the office. But I don't respect the man.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Daniel Sullivan

He is suffering a lot of psychological trauma that he doesn't know he is going through.

Luiz Scolari

We suffered a lot, and when it was over, it was over,

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Richard Dawkins

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Richelle Mead

Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress.

Ryan Miller

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

Russell Brand

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

Rose Byrne

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Romola Garai

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Leonard Hamilton

He's getting a better understanding of his strengths.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?