Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. S. Eliot

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Virginia Woolf

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Timothy Garton Ash

Canada is rich, so would be a much-needed net contributor to the European budget at a time when the EU has been taking in lots of poorer states.

T. S. Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

Virginia Woolf

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Jackie Collins

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Jilly Cooper

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

Jilly Cooper

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

Lamar S. Smith

I am disappointed that the Senate would increase the number of foreign high-tech workers without including any safeguards for American workers.

Thomas Russo

He has had on occasion specific investments in foreign stocks, but this is different. He doesn't sound like he's making one-off purchases.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Napoleon Bonaparte

International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents

Tim Maluga

I generally don't respond to the e-mails I get from foreign players. They're looking for a full-ride and we just don't have that to often. I think that picking foreign players is a lazy way of recruiting.

Phil Klay

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. He has a lot of gifts others don't have.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Francis Donald

Humility is the river through which all other gifts of grace flow.

Jack Sheehan

We can get nice gifts for the kids.

Ann Kaplan

These are large research institutions, and a lot of these very big gifts go toward supplying infrastructure for, and paying for things like, medical research.

Don Jr.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

Myles Munroe

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

Noam Chomsky

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Renee Fitzgerald

This has been a really big job but very fulfilling. I may not have all my gifts wrapped for my kids or my house clean, but I have memories that will last forever.

Jon Stewart

Thus, I've created humour.

Garry Trudeau

There is nothing worse than annotated humour,

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Andrew Davies

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Sylvester Stallone

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

Richard Baxter

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.