Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible.

Nhat Hanh

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.

Nhat Hanh

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

Noam Chomsky

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

John Greenleaf Whittier

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

John Greenleaf Whittier

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

John Greenleaf Whittier

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Craig Biggio

The guy goes into the stands. How'd he pull it out? If I was a fan, I would've mauled him.

Joseph Estrada

That just goes to show that he is a liar.

Tyler Drinkall

That last minute was crazy. A lot goes through your mind, but the main thing was to keep composure.

Bob Scott

That kind of surprises me that they haven't done that more than they have. But as the season goes on, I think teams will do that more and more to hold her in check.

Larry Greene

That may be something that goes to court.

John Jay

That goes without saying. It looks good (to be at home for so long), but if you don't perform and get it done, it won't look as good.

Sibel Edmonds

That goes to the heart of the matter: The media, as I said is the window to the government, and that window has turned into a wall.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Tim McGraw

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

Thomas Wilson

First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

Red Buttons

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Toni Morrison

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

Tom Stoppard

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

Tom Stoppard

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

Tom Hanks

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

Tina Fey

Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color. They leave in your disgusting knuckles, but they may take out some armpit stubble. Not because they’re denying its existence, but because they understand that it’s okay to make a photo look as if you were caught on your best day in the best light.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Albert Einstein

God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.