Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Dolly Parton

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

Deepak Chopra

This moment - the one you're experiencing right now - is the culmination of all the moments you have experienced in the past. This moment is as it is because the entire universe is as it is.

Amber Valletta

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

Andrew Young

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Chuck Palahniuk

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Chuck Palahniuk

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Close

Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

Christopher Reeve

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

Jack Roush

Looking back, this is the cleanest we've ever run at Richmond.

Terry Steed

Yes, I'm worried. We're looking at June 1 for the start of the season and we're still trying to clean up and pick up for Hurricane Katrina six months ago.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Michael Sullivan

Tank is more likely to head into free agency. Not 100 percent, but likely.

Ani Difranco

Take me home. Take me home and leave me there. Think I'm gonna cry, don't know why. Think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby. Feel free to listen. Feel free to stare.

Michaelle Jean

It's always something I feel very free and open to share with other people.

Janis Joplin

It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!

Marcus Trufant

It was one of those plays. I just saw (Ward) running free and I tried to hustle back. It was a great call.

Idrees Bashir

It's top notch all around the board, corners, strong safety and free safety,

Kofi Annan

it will never be able to shut this country's free press up.

Bella Thorne

I feel like girls always deserve flowers; it's just a nice thing to do. If you want to make your girlfriend smile, send her flowers!

Bella Thorne

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

Bobby Vinton

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

Amy Winehouse

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Amy Winehouse

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

Amy Winehouse

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

Amy Winehouse

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Amy Winehouse

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Amy Winehouse

When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don't happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Devorah Goldburg

Typically, we open a shelter, the hurricane happens, people hang out there maybe a week or so and then everyone goes home. This time, there's nothing to go home to.

Jack Pritchard

time is not on your side. As time goes by, we are increasing our arsenal.

Bernadette Peters

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.

Heraclitus

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Steve Stivers

You know, capital isn't patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

Reilly Poirier

We're young. We're just getting better as the year goes on.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Chris Burke

It will just be a footnote, ... Then maybe we won't have to see it replayed for years and years and years.

H. Hunt

They enabled him to do a lot of things that maybe he wanted to do that we couldn't do the year before.

Petter Solberg

It was better this afternoon. I think maybe I'm taking it too carefully, but I really want points here.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

John Fowles

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

John Fowles

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

James Madison

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

James M. Barrie

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Julia Ward Howe

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Napoleon Hill

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Judith Butler

Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

Josh Bernstein

If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins...

Patti Smith

What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm; you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally; it's great to look at - it's a package deal.

Paul Newman

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. Just hope when you get to that great racetrack in the sky, that the balance will tip slightly into those things that you'd be proud of.

Mary Wollstonecraft

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

Marta Andreasen

Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.