Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Charles Caleb Colton

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Charles M. Schwab

Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

A. A. Milne

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Tolkien offers sympathy, surrender, friendship and, most of all, forgiveness.

William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

Paul Simon

If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

Bill Vaughan

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

William Banting

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Wilford Brimley

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

Walter Lippmann

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

Winston Churchill

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Winston Churchill

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

Harvey Cox

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Genghis Khan

It is easy to conquer the world from the back of a horse.

Laura Hillenbrand

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely

John Stephens

Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.

Mark Driscoll

Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

Theodore Parker

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Theodore Roosevelt

If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

Theodore Roosevelt

With great victory comes great sacrifice.

Theodor Adorno

All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.

Michael Lewis

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

Maureen Dowd

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Matthew Simpson

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.