Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

James Gray

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Peter Beck

The very nature of sweeping reforms would be inherently destabilizing to the regime. So it's more likely they would be halting reforms.

Joe Laszlo

E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Park Chan-wook

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

Srikumar Rao

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Michael Brown

Having a moon is just inherently cool, and is something that most self-respecting planets have.

Esme Bianco

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Alan Watts

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Alan Watts

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Alan Watts

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Alan Watts

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

Alan Watts

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

Alan Watts

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

Brian Billick

There's a wide variety of things we could do. The most operative question is, who would that be? We could target a lot of guys.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

S. Walker

It was devastating, ... But perhaps had that not happened, we wouldn't be where we are today.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Richard Holbrooke

The situation is as serious now -- perhaps more serious -- than it was in October,

Stephen Carl

Perhaps there is some profit taking before (the Fed).

F. Schumacher

Perhaps the problem is that the public does not know us very well.

Hans Blix

perhaps the most important problem we are facing.

Kenneth Elzinga

Perhaps 'supported' is a better word than 'developed,'

Jasper Fforde

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the workweek it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the U.S..

Agnes Repplier

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Agnes Repplier

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Janet Parker

We're not about to let them take the phrase

Daniel Handler

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Aristophanes

A truce to idle phrases!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Clive Barker

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

Adolf Hitler

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

Albert J. Nock

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases — as in the nature of things it must be — that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

Angelique Kidjo

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

Jennifer Grey

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

Jim Davis

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

Oscar Wilde

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Nolan North

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.

John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Olga Kurylenko

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

Najib Razak

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Reggie McNeal

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

John Milton

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Oswald Chambers

God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Gaston Gaudio

He was serving unbelievably and I couldn't do too much.

Stephen Toulouse

There's been some speculation that ... this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Herman Frazier

For the most part, they have really been our bank. They have been the ones to step up and support us when we somehow get to downfalls.

Ronda Rousey

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.