Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Grahame-Smith

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

Richard M. Nixon

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Pat Conroy

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Pat Conroy

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Prem Rawat

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Bayard Taylor

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Austin O'Malley

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Moshe Sharett

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

Zacky Vengeance

Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them

Winston Churchill

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Henry Rollins

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Vengeance has no foresight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Vengeance is without foresight.

Neil Young

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

Barbara Deming

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Leo Tolstoy

Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

George MacDonald

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.