Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Hendricks

The state veterinarian made a note of it and put him on the injured list. It was just a mild little thing and not a problem at all. It won't cost him any time.

Rick Ford

When it was tied, we didn't do what you have to do to win a game like this. We were impatient and we forced the issue and it cost us the game.

Mike Chung

You may be saving $30 to $40 a month (the cost of one tank of gas for a typical driver. But is it worth a $4,000 or $5,000 premium?

Ralph Nader

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Hope costs nothing.

Sinclair Lewis

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

John Steinbeck

It don't cost money to ask.

Maynard Webb

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

Mark Rutte

The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

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.

Marcus Valerius Martial

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Benjamin Franklin

Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Nancy Lessin

There should be no one that died because this war shouldn't have happened and more killing and more death is not helping anything. The occupation of Iraq right now by the U.S. is the problem, it's not the solution.

Jim Osborn

There's no way that can be overlooked. If his death leads to passage of hate-crime legislation in Wyoming, it will be a bittersweet footnote in our state's history.

John Strachan

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Jeff Greenfield

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

Eduardo Najera

You learn more from defeat than you do from victory. We've been through a lot the last month, and we're finally learning how to make big plays down the stretch.

Pat Hill

getting a lot of big payday games in big venues, which is great for those programs. I think that has defeated the purpose for us, anyway, of getting really high-profile games, even though they're on the road.

Hillary Clinton

We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we're not putting ground troops into Syria. We're going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops.

George Orwell

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

George H. W. Bush

We need more troops to defeat 'The Illusion of Failure' in Iraq....29 million should do it.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

Frederick the Great

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

Jim Bolla

We had considerable consideration, but we didn't get in.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Source Unknown

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

Friedrich Hegel

To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.

Phil Boyce

Warner has free rein. It's a policy I've only second-guessed one or two times.

Don Evans

We are a nation of free men and free traders. Now is no time for small plans or shrinking ambitions,

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

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.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Markus Zusak

I am hunted by humans

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself

D. James

If that swelling comes down and they can do some things with it and get itself worked out, then possibly he could come back. But if it doesn't, that's something he can't play with.

Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Gever Tulley

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Daryl Hannah

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Ben Jonson

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Debbie Ford

Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can't handle.

Alphonsus Liguori

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Alphonsus Liguori

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

Anthony Marra

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

Anthony Marra

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

Andrei Platonov

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Al Gore

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

Jane Asher

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Allan Bloom

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

Andy Cohen

If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

Aga Khan IV

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our 20th Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors; our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

John Wesley

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Janet Fitch

If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

Jane McGonigal

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

J. K. Rowling

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

Nathan Fillion

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Tom Lamb

The real tragedy is for Billy, not for the team,

Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.