Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Dickinson

Superiority to fateIs difficult to learn.'Tis not conferred by anyBut possible to earn.

Sara Sheridan

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.

Jonathan Gross

Work ethic is something that's conferred by example. Kids are much smarter than we give them credit for; it's about what they see.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

Eleanor Catton

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

Seamus Heaney

But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Amitabh Bachchan

You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory.

Barack Obama

a judicial philosophy that ignores the possibilities of racial discrimination or gender discrimination, a political philosophy that typically errs on the side of the powerful.

Katharine Graham

So few grown women like their lives.

Bernard Pivot

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Dora Murray

All ages, genders and ethnicities are welcome. If you love the theater, join us.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

David Bennett

We think he can. I hope we wouldn't have given him a scholarship if we don't think he can. He's a talented young man. He's got a lot of grit to him. He's a little fighter.

James T. Walsh

We think given what they know now they have sufficient money to get through the year.

Casey Long

We took every shot that was given to us. If it was open, it had to go in. That's the way we felt. We'd worked too hard for it not to.

Bill Doba

We've given up some yards and we've got to get that locked in.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Lindsey Graham

If this were a fight, the referee would have stopped it.

Jeff Carter

This referendum is just not going to fly.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Martin Bormann

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Peter L. Berger

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

Terence McKenna

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

Marcus Aurelius

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Susan Strasberg

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

James Blake

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Dana Rohrabacher

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

Sepp Blatter

These are not 'minor concessions' as you term them.

Matt Mullenweg

The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.

Tim Henman

It was much better today, in terms of the result,

Kris Jenner

I've actually trademarked the term 'Momager,' which is what I am.

Joshua Harris

Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

Karen Gillan

I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Jonathan Ive

There are a thousand no's for every yes.

Allen Moore

It was something I had done a thousand times,

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Derrick Brooks

I would give up one thousand yards to get a win.

George R. R. Martin

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,

Jonathan Todd

We think he will be a truly independent adviser.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Robert Smith

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

Samuel Johnson

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?