Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Edith Wharton

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Arnold Newman

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

Bill Moyers

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Charlaine Harris

Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

Charles Horton Cooley

In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

Bill McCartney

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Charles Caleb Colton

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Charles Caleb Colton

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

David Hume

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Tom Curley

The perfect was the enemy of the good,

David Pearlman

The perfect may be the enemy of the good.

William Shakespeare

Our enemies are our outward consciences.

William Shakespeare

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Sean Dillon

They picked up the pace for us defensively.

John Naveaux

They started putting a lot of pressure on us and that's not a pace we like to play at.

Brett Casey

It really helped. The more you get into the game; you know what's going on and where people are going to be, and the pace of the game.

John Hawkes

The speed of the race is a concern. There is not a lot of pace in the race,

Sarah Howard

It was weird. I had no idea where I was or what kind of pace I was swimming.

Brett Lee

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world,

Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.