Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Toni Sacconaghi

Since he took over, the stock has gone up 25 percent, so clearly the market...appears to be expecting material cost-cutting, of which I would presume a significant ingredient would be work force reduction.

Michael Vick

I just told them I was going to be a different quarterback, ... I was going to keep my poise. I was going to stay in the pocket. I was going to make sure what I was seeing was legit. I was seeing the field and seeing everything clearly and I was able to get guys involved. That's what I've been looking for. That's what we've been looking for as an offense, and it worked.

Ken Moroney

It has clearly been a weekend like no other in the history of policing in this state.

Wendy Day

Clearly they are enjoying a nice friendship together. But Nicole's personal life is her personal life and I have no further knowledge of their friendship.

Wendy Day

Clearly they are enjoy a nice friendship together.

Luke Ford

Clearly the will of the people is that the Legislature make as its 'paramount' duty -- its top priority -- the education of all children. Not just some -- all.

John McCarthy

Clearly the two Mikes have been talking to him.

Tim Russert

Clearly the special counsel has made a judgment, ... that when taking the comments and statements of Matt Cooper and Judy Miller and myself as opposed to Scooter Libby, he has decided that Mr. Libby was not telling the truth.

Thomas Hobbes

A great leap in the dark

John Tillotson

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

Cassandra Clare

In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.

Marilyn Ferguson

...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.

Paloma Faith

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

Philip Levine

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

Maggie Stiefvater

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

Heath Ledger

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

Haruki Murakami

That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Dylan Thomas

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Dalai Lama

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

Anne Bradstreet

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Anne Sexton

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

D. H. Lawrence

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

D. H. Lawrence

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

D. H. Lawrence

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

D. H. Lawrence

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.

Debbie Ford

Your soul’s desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart.

Donna Brazile

I'm not here to talk about bigotry in the sense that I don't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. I hope that it's a heart of compassion.

Donna Karan

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman, with all the complications, feelings and emotions.

Anne Sexton

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

D. H. Lawrence

I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

Clint Eastwood

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

Confucius

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

Daniel Tammet

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

Daniel Webster

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Plato

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Ernest Hemingway

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Eudora Welty

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Cassandra Clare

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

Kevin Kelly

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.