Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Adamo

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

Peter Spina

Silver stocks are powering ahead ... taking the HUI above the 315-316 resistance to all-time record highs.

Jim Emerson

She doesn't put herself above anybody else on the team. She's a good teammate. Sometimes kids as good as she is look down on their teammates. She's never done that.

Simon Hoggart

'Sir' Richard Branson may be the Julian Assange of British business, in that both believe the world revolves around them. Hence Branson's decision to set up an air service between Manchester and London, above the route of the train line that's been taken from him.

Jim McGowan

She's a goofball in the best sense of the word. People really like her and she interacts with everyone. She really has fun, but above all, she loves to win. I love the way she competes.

Colin Cushman

She's a gamer. She does the important things for us. She can score, but she's not above passing to her teammates.

Susan Dunn

She just goes above and beyond. She is so easy to work with. No matter what the question is, she'll find the answer for you.

Diane Biega

She never woke up until we put her back in the car. She was a character. Above all, she was just a sweet personality. We're really going to miss her.

Ron Washington

I had it above the fireplace. I came back and found it down the hall, near the bedroom.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Donald Trump

There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want.

Donald Trump

This country right now owes $19 trillion. And they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess.

Donald Trump

President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.

Donald Trump

I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera.

Donald Trump

I've used the laws of the country to my advantage.

Donald Trump

Everybody is going to bring the money back in. It's going to be used in our country and so many other things.

Donald Trump

[Marco Rubio] a total non-show senator. I mean, he was elected - he defrauded the people of Florida. He was elected to be a senator. He was elected to go and vote on important matters, and he's all over the country. He's not voting. I mean, he's not voting.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country`s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Ralph Bunche

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.

Rafael Yglesias

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

Shane Harper

God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good.

Seamus Heaney

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Oswald Chambers

You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.

Julia Quinn

Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

Juan Rulfo

No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.

Mark Twain

...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

Mark Twain

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

Marvin Gaye

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Mark Twain

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Julia Roberts

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Joseph Joubert

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Molly Ivins

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Ken Wilber

"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.