Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

Sylvia Earle

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

Randy Pausch

Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.

Marcus Buckingham

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

Bob Bradley

A sea of humanity. What a wonderful sight to see at the start.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Carl Sandburg

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Daniel Handler

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Elizabeth Strout

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)

Bill Hybels

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

Thomas Overbury

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Susan Griffin

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

Marilynne Robinson

A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.

Philip Sidney

If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish.

Francis Drake

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Christian Nestell Bovee

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

Grenville Kleiser

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Immanuel Kant

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.