Famous Quotes & Sayings

Monique Roffey

The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's imperative we show love for the Chinese.

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.

Rob Boston

They straddle two worlds. Pope John Paul II often traveled around the world, urging ends to conflicts, or speaking on other topics that were ostensibly secular. So does the Dalai Lama.

Soledad O'Brien

I've had the great good fortune over the last probably decade of getting to work together with His Holiness the Dalai Lama . ... I've learned to tell the truth in a more compassionate way. I'm trying to be a kinder and gentler speaker.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

Anders Rasmussen

The 1990s were the decade of mega-summits. I think we should make the next 10 years the decade of action.

Seanan McGuire

I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.

George Bancroft

We have called this our Decade of Gibbons. We expected to win this ourselves. We are a young team, but when you win something for 10 straight years, you don't want that loss on your watch.

CEO Mitarai

We have to plant the seeds for the next decade and beyond.

Dwayne Rosario

Votes help. Winning Goal of the Decade would be an (accomplishment) in my career. It'd be a great way to start the season.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

EarthEcho Expeditions represents the culmination of more than a decade of working with educators and youth from around the world. EarthEcho Expeditions uses the thrill of adventure to inspire and empower a new generation of environmental champions.

Paul Stamets

My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in concert, helping protecting the mushrooms - and us - from microbial pathogens.

Anthony Principi

will positively shape our military for decades to come.

Donald Trump

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Sam Zell

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you're not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage.

Michael Hutchison

is tying your fortune to the fortune of the housing market.

Pat Quillen

We don't want to make a fortune. We just want to make a living.

Lucan

Pompey lives after his battles, but his fortune has perished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

William Shakespeare

Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

Donald Cargill

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Abdu'l Baha

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

Stephen Jay Gould

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Oswald Chambers

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

R. C. Sproul

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

R. C. Sproul

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

Claire Cameron

I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.

James Barrie

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

James Matthews

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Jewel

There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.

J. J. Abrams

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

James M. Barrie

Always be kinder than necessary.

James M. Barrie

Always be a littler kinder than necessary.

William Christopher Handy

Nature was my kindergarten.

Dalai Lama

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Glenn Ford

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Renny Harlin

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Margaret Atwood

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Marco Rubio

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

Marilynne Robinson

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Carrie Brownstein

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

Arsene Wenger

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

Anton Corbijn

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Gaston Gaudio

I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Ben Elliot

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.