Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Thomas Merton

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

Thomas Hobbes

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Thomas Friedman

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

Thomas J. Watson

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas Keneally

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Thomas Keneally

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

Raymond Queneau

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Victor Hugo

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Siddha Nagarjuna

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

Adrian Edmondson

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Paul Taibl

That is an issue that could be handled in some other way. It doesn't require the whole BRAC effort to be derailed.

Sarah Fay

It takes someone incredibly strong to lead that effort in that organization. If you want people to fall in line, you have to get someone at the helm who is highly credible. And I think she is.

Gary Overton

It takes a large group of people to make everything work. It takes a lot of work and a lot of effort to put on a tournament like this. It's fine-tuned to minute.

Bernie Bickerstaff

It was just a really good team effort and a very significant game.

Lee Snyder

It was just a pretty good solid effort for us throughout the game.

James Marshall

It was just an outstanding effort from the whole squad of 23 players, they all turned up to play.

Barry Hyman

The war effort seems to be going extremely well, much better than people thought it would.

Joseph Allen

They did nothing after the effort that was made last March.