Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Norville

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Michel Onfray

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.

Monica Lewinsky

I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually.

Joshua Staley

The post play was amazing tonight. We normally try to play from the inside out and we made a conscious effort to get the ball into the post. That really worked well for us tonight.

Michael Graf

The people who came in told us such amazing stories of their personal journeys, how they got to Madison, that we just threw out the scripts. What these people are talking about in their native tongues are their own personal experiences.

Rosamund Pike

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

David Sacks

We're incredibly proud that 'Smoking' is our debut film and we're thrilled to be partners with Fox Searchlight. Jason, the cast and crew did an amazing job bringing the film to the screen and our experience at Toronto has been a dream come true.

Nathan Fillion

I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.

Nina Jacobson

The IMAX cameras are big and heavy. And they're loud. So you have to be mindful of whether or not they're worth it; I'd say the image quality is incredible and the scale is amazing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Troy Vincent

We want them to know what it's like to be a leader, what it's like to be a team player because those things carry on in everyday life.

Chris Chocola

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

Chris Christie

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

Chris Christie

The biggest anxiety is just about America's role in the world. People are feeling very unsafe. They really are. They're just wondering whether, anything can be done to try to stabilize the world a little bit.

Chris Christie

Dammit, America is a hellhole and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Chris Christie

I had to make these decisions after 9/11, make a decision about how to proceed forward with an investigation or how to pull back, whether you use certain actionable intelligence or whether not to. And yet they continue to debate about this bill and in the subcommittee and what - nobody in America cares about that.

Chris Christie

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Dickens

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

Charles Dickens

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Charles Stanley

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

David Hume

Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.

Benazir Bhutto

The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated...Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

August Strindberg

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

Antony Sher

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Simon Deng

The people who will walk to Washington, D.C., are here to tell the world about courage, a word the United Nations has been unable to pronounce.

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.

John Abizaid

The people who were low-level Baathists need to know they have a part in the future of their country,

Harry Sinden

When you think something has to be done ... you have to do it. It was not proper to let him keep doing what he was doing -- signing players, making plans for the future -- when we knew that at the end of the year we were going to relieve him of his job.

Patrick Callahan

We want to protect the lake in the future and for our children.

Mohammad Khan

We want job opportunities and a good life, a good future for our children,

Damon Albarn

Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

Gus Melonas

We're investing to meet present and future needs.

Lisa Stone

it remains her wish to have Bankhead become a part of the UW team in the future.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

Charles Dickens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Eartha Kitt

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

David Remnick

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

David Hume

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

David Brinkley

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brin

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Benazir Bhutto

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Beatrice Webb

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Asne Seierstad

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Daniel Kahneman

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Simon Sinek

We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.

Ruth Bernhard

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status].

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Waters

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

John Stossel

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

Mark Zuckerberg

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Stein

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.