Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Addams

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Amy Levy

There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.

Mike Thibault

It had to be fun to sit in the stands and watch, because you had such an ebb and flow to the game.

Jim Mooney

They (inland marine policies) ebb and flow with the economy. People have a lot of luxuries now.

David A. R. White

I think there is always an ebb and flow in Hollywood about what is current.

Tim White

There will always be ebb and flow. In between Lord of the Rings and King Kong there were probably people who were making a living doing commercials.

Walter Matthau

You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.

Skip Prosser

There's not much to say. We're obviously at a low ebb right now. We have to find a way somehow within ourselves to fight our way out.

Mark Ruffalo

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

C. S. Lewis

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

C. S. Lewis

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Bill Bryson

I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.

Benjamin Rush

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

Antonia Fraser

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

Bill Burr

I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right?

Bertrand Russell

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.

William Shakespeare

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

Victor Koo

At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.

Jaime King

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

Alan Mak

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

Alan Greenspan

For Hong Kong and Singapore, in fact, they have been able to realize the size of economy.

Rob Portman

We should not be lowering the expectations, nor lowering the ambitions in the round, ... Hong Kong is not the end of process.

Charles Schumer

While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing.

Hariadi Wibisono

The result of test from the Hong Kong laboratory was positive.

Jason Baker

In three years of protesting in Hong Kong I have never seen anything like this,

Ming Pao

Hong Kong needs a harmonious society and so does the movie industry.

Laura Ahearn

Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.

Stephen Byers

We need to recognize that many people feel they are living in a

Bill Ferris

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

Sally Stohler

I'm sitting in my living room wondering why I have so many clocks.

Christopher Ricks

The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever

Robert H. Grubbs

Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

David Lord

We do this as a service to our clients, ... We're not in the exorbitant mark-up business. We're living on margins of 25 percent.

Robert Taylor

Here's a picture of the singlewide trailer we were living in.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

William Shakespeare

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

Peter Jackson

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.

Granth Sahib

Wherever You seat me, there I sit, O my Lord and Master; wherever You send me, there I go

Bhagavad Gita

Wherever is Krishna, the lord of yoga; and wherever is Arjuna, the archer; there will be everlasting prosperity, victory, happiness, and morality. This is my conviction.

H. Hart

We need the Lord in our lives. I get my strength from His word and His people.

Donnie Miller

We are taking it day by day and trusting in the Lord and that where we get our strength from.

Alexander MacLaren

Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid?''

David Reutimann

He got in the wall. Thank the Lord I missed it.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Douglas Hamilton

That's how we think the jovian rings are formed,

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

Mickey Spillane

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.