Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Jennings Bryan

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

Samuel Johnson

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Roger Ebert

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

Zhuangzi

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

Walter Lang

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

Voltaire

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

William Least Heat-Moon

New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

Walter Dean Myers

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

Bruce Cutler

He is more upset about this than the case,

Sarah Dessen

That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.

Ronald Reagan

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

Samantha Bond

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

Julie Tovey

I know what she is upset about. You go out there.

Mara Wilson

Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.

Kenny Rogers

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Joshua Bell

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

Leona Lewis

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Richelle Mead

Eddie was intensely dedicated too. Adrian sometimes called him mini-Dimitri

Trinny Woodall

I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.

Sarah Silverman

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

Tori Amos

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.

Venus Williams

Sometimes, you know, once you pay your taxes and once you pay your expenses, once you've lived this life, things add up quickly. And it's easy to become a statistic. And that's something I've always tried to avoid, and I've always said, hey - not that it won't be me, that, hey, it could be me.

William Strunk, Jr.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with...

Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

Eric Hoffer

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.