Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

Piet Mondrian

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

Ashwin Sanghi

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.

Irish Sayings

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray

Edmund Burke

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Doug Muzzio

What does he get out of it? He ceases to be irrelevant. There's chest thumping here. He's saying, 'I'm not irrelevant.' He's in the news. He's dominating the agenda.

Atharva Veda

One fears death because of ignorance but when the 'flame of knowledge' is enkindled in the mind then the 'fear of death' ceases to exist.

George Iles

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Tom Mitchell

He's one of the few people that has an open mind and continues to look for a way every day to grow and learn. He has a driving force in life to make better images that convey strong messages. He never ceases to learn on every front.

Joe Donzelli

We are a district that's growing by leaps and bounds. Not that our administration is growing a lot, but we'll need room as the district continues to grow.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Peter Cardillo

There is no question that the State of the Union message last night was very strong and very positive. Obviously the economy continues to do very well. Inflation is low and interest rates are still very low.

Jeremy Stretch

We're still going to get Japanese rates at zero for some time yet. The Fed continues to underpin the view that more rate hikes are highly probable, and yield premiums favor the dollar in the short term.

Michael Dell

We're seeing our Internet sales roughly double or triple every year, ... We were at $18 million a day in the first quarter. It continues to grow. It was 30 percent (of total sales). We think it goes to 50 percent, then to 70 and 80 percent.

Paul Olson

We're seeing a really healthy market right now. I do know our listing inventory continues to grow and even though that is happening, our market time has been stable for three months.

Joe Schwieterman

United had suggested that it was on a glide path to emerging from bankruptcy. This suggests there is more turbulence ahead. This continues to dog United.

Michael Hogan

As we focus on the goals of our strategic plan, rankings play a role in gauging our progress. Though some programs have gained in these rankings and others have dropped, it's the long list of graduate programs in which we excel that continues to make me proud.

Jay Kornegay

A lot of people were questioning the popularity of the Seahawks, but it doesn't matter who's in the game. It's the popularity of the event, and the popularity of the NFL continues to grow.

Doug Deming

We have no gimmicks. We play pure traditional music from the heart, with an image that conveys a deep respect for the genre.

Margaret Fuller

Writing her a message that her other friends can see conveys how meaningful her friendship was, so her memory is able to stay alive.

Jake T. Austin

With voice over work, you need to convey as much emotion as you can without making any physical movements, so it's hard. You've got to visualize everything.

Tom Brokaw

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

Vince Staples

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

Stephane Dujarric

The Secretary-General conveys his deepest sympathy to the families of the victims.

Dr. Gottlieb

Sometimes less is more - less information, but highlighting it in a better way, sometimes better conveys important risk information.

Lisa Randall

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

Paul Di Filippo

Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.

Gerald Massengill

We would rather not have wardens driving in from long distances. We would rather have wardens who are part of the community.

Ferdi Heyneke

With this gold price heading towards $600, positive sentiment is driving the sector.

Tim Gallagher

With this car, its going to be the first time we have all three levels - exterior style, interior style and driving dynamics.

John Kilduff

Worries about gasoline supplies during the summer driving season are fading.

David Pursell

We've got a very uncertain geopolitical environment, and we have an uncertain gasoline situation in the U.S., and all those factors are driving the energy market higher.

Carrie Johnson

Women will be driving the next big online retail boom. Online retailers would be wise to look at how women shop online, and tailor their strategies accordingly.

Martha Mitchell

To permit teens to talk on the phone while still practicing their driving skills simply does not promote safe driving practices on our roadways.

Dav Whatmore

We're really enjoying the situation. Barring any mishaps in the second innings, we're in the driving seat.

Geoff Smith

At Daytona, Eric finished sixth, did a really nice job driving his way through the field.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Nick Offerman

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Nonso Anozie

'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.

Raghav Bahl

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Elizabeth Ivey

The other thing is you need a good solid work force and 50 percent of us is female, so just play the numbers.

Method Man

I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

Harry M. Wyatt III

We had the best-equipped and we have the best-trained military force on the face of the earth, right here in Oklahoma.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Chris Brady

We were trying to force things too much. We were too impatient.

Charlotte Bronte

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Neil Peart

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

Michael Leunig

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.

Hanya Yanagihara

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Al Michaels

As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited.

Akhil Sharma

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Chris Carter

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Chris Colfer

Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

Chris Colfer

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

Chris Abani

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Chloe Sevigny

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Peter Price

Television is transforming into moving images anytime, anywhere.

Morris Gleitzman

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

Robert Dallek

There's no question that these sorts of television images have a big impact on people and in many respects shape reactions to the White House,

William Butler Yeats

Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

Charles Stiles

If they get a message from a sender that has images and links enabled one day, and another one the next day where they're not, they tend not to trust that so much, or think there was an error. It sends an unclear message to the consumer.

Steven Friedman

Some of these images from New Orleans have looked like Mozambique.

Dan Gilroy

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

Lorrie Brown

I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Eugene Doro

When you see a team like that, you can learn by just watching them play.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

Alan Watts

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Alan Watts

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

John Winn

We're going to take that into account, ... with open arms.

Tony Padilla

We're going to see if we can open things up with Tiger throwing the ball.

Lynn King

We're going to open a playable field, but we've got more work to do.

Dee Brown

When we come out and he plays aggressive, that opens it up for other players. When he plays like that, the sky's the limit.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charles Dickens

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Charles Dickens

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Charles Dickens

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one....

Charles Dickens

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.