Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Scott Adams

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

Scott Adams

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Thomas Jefferson

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

Thomas Jefferson

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Amber Tamblyn

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad

Alphonsus Liguori

New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.

Anthony Quinn

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

Anthony Mackie

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

Andres Iniesta

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

Chuck Palahniuk

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

Jerry Cochran

What we're going to take away is a lot of lessons learned. The more we can exercise, the more we can test things, the better we're all going to get.

Bruce Forsyth

It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

Ludwig von Mises

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

Billy Blanks

What I'm teaching as an exercise instructor, my goal is to be able to take all the love off myself to help someone else.

Claire Danes

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

Cullen Hightower

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..

Dan Buettner

Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.

Dan Buettner

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

David Mamet

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.