Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

Rig Veda

He, who yearns for his goal with a firm mind and soul definitely attains his objective.

Bhagavad Gita

He from whom all beings originate, and by whom all this universe is pervaded; worshipping Him by performing one's natural duty for Him one attains perfection.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Josiah Royce

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

Bhagavad Gita

The one who does all works for Me, and to whom I am the supreme goal, who is my devotee, who has no attachment, and is free from enmity towards any being attains Me, O Arjuna.

Sathya Baba

Where divinity is sought after, one ought always to behave in the spirit of Love, devoid of the slightest trace of hate, envy and anger. When one cultivates the inner look, one attains the conviction of the basic equality of all.

Bhagavad Gita

Smoke, night, the dark lunar fortnight, and the six months of southern solstice of the sun; departing by these paths, the righteous person attains lunar light (or heaven) and reincarnates.

Bhagavad Gita

The yogi who knows all this goes beyond getting the benefits of the study of the Vedas, performance of sacrifices, austerities, and charities, and attains the Supreme eternal abode.

Jack Horner

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Craig Anderson

Kids are basically little learning machines. Whatever the content is in front of them, they're going to pick it up.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Nobbs

I talked to the umpire after the game and he said he thinks its nerves. We can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just they don't know how to get ready yet. Basically it's coming from long days in school, and coming out and not really knowing what to expect.

E. P. Thompson

It breaks my heart to realize that the culture has basically transformed the church rather than the church confronting the culture and trying to transform it.

Leonard Little

It basically was a teaching session this year. It wasn't a thing where they came out and beat us up every day. We basically learned the position, and learned what we needed to do on every given play.

Larry Taylor

It basically took my life away. I don't really care if I see daylight tomorrow.

Michael Bird

It basically takes the 'block' out of the block grant concept.

Jim Peters

It basically spun itself around and wound up 180 degrees from the direction in which it had been rolling.

Adrian Anderson

I suspect the main reason is that the players are fundamentally well behaved on-field. They have become more and more disciplined.

Chris Fitz

It came as no surprise. These guys behaved like dictators.

Shakira

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

Paul Miller

What we have done is computational modeling-that is, using mathematical models coupled on the computer-to simulate the function of the brain. By observing circuits, we can see the way they behave and are controlled.

Fabio Capello

His response to being left out of the team over the last few weeks has been brilliant. He has not been involved but he never sulked and behaved like a real professional both on and off the pitch.

Richard Gingras

We take significant steps to make sure the sender is legitimate and behaves appropriately. We only support permission-based messages to existing customers.

Matt Peterson

I think that's why this thing is getting attention. It doesn't behave the way people think it should; it ruins files. That's the kind of thing that usually scares people.

Jeff LaBar

He was so well behaved back in the day. He was one of the few crew members we could count on. There are so many stories about me that he could tell you, but I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a story about him.

Champ Bailey

He is definitely a prime example of how to be a pro, whether it's on the field, off the field, whatever. You can't have a better model for a young guy coming in on how to behave yourself and how to carry yourself. He's definitely done all the right things throughout his career.

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Larry Rice

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

Toba Beta

If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.

James Park

I just see a lot of listless trading into the end of the summer -- there isn't much conviction,

Thomas Jefferson

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?

Jose Saramago

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Rupert Thompson

The U.S. manufacturing ISM index should show a decent gain today, reinforcing the market's conviction that the U.S. recovery is for real.

Khalil Dulaimi

They are moving to a speedy conviction ... they have already passed a sentence even before the trial has ended.

Sam Veda

History is testimony to the fact that kings, who did so ended up in ruins and misery. Such kings were always devoid of stability, peace and success.

Frank Black

I remember at the time telling my therapist that it felt really good to be down, to be in pain or whatever. Because it was like: 'Oh yeah, I am human.' Not that I was devoid of emotion before, but to go that far, that deep, it's like: 'Wow, this is what it's like to be human.' In some sick way it felt good.

Larry Birns

This is being done devoid of public scrutiny. I personally think that it's outrageous that the US government can dispose funds with no real consultation.

Bhagavad Gita

I am the strength, that is devoid of lust and attachment, of the strong.

Rajeev Gupta

For the whole technology sector, what's devoid is a catalyst. What's going to drive these companies? What's the next big thing?

Felix Adler

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.

Liberty Bailey

Fact is not to be worshipped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead; it is tied to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy; they are only the poles of experience. What is called the scientific method is only imagination set within bounds. Facts are bridged by imagination. They are tied together by the thread of speculation. The very essence of science is to reason from the known to the unknown.

Rig Veda

The person, who treads on the path of truth, refrains from deception, treachery, pretension, and remains untouched by falsehoods is never devoid of eternal joy.

William Wordsworth

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

Rudolf Steiner

In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.

Laura Bushnell

It takes a lot to open up and love. I think women find their divinity through their disappointment in the men in their lives. Men find their divinity only if a woman sees it in them.

Alan Cohen

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Peace Pilgrim

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

Marcus Aurelius

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

Pythagoras

Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

Pythagoras

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

Sarah Dessen

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

Roger Waters

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Samuel Johnson

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Samuel Johnson

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

William Hazlitt

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

William Hazlitt

Envy is littleness of soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Yann Martel

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

Allison Davis

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Woodrow Wilson

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Will Rogers

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Voltaire

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Rufus Choate

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Longchenpa

Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.

John Bradshaw

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings

Romesh Gunesekera

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

Peace Pilgrim

My inner peace remains in spite of any outward thing. Only insofar as I remain in harmony can I draw others into harmony, and so much more harmony is needed before the world can find peace.

Pema Chodron

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

Lin Yutang

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

Les Johnson

All of the thrusting is in the inner solar system, then it coasts.

Rasheed Wallace

I don't have the slightest (idea), but they better come up with something.

John Dingell

He has not made even the slightest inquiry,

Robert Hernandez

I haven't the slightest idea who he is.

Randall Osterhuber

We do see the slightest trend. Our winters are getting slightly wetter each year.

Aslan Maskhadov

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Richard Whately

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Richard Bach

So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.

Chris Donlay

I think the unique thing here is that we were able to trace it.

Virgil

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.