Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Miguel Ruiz

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

William Gibson

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

Paul Bowles

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

William Cowper

Toll for the brave - / The brave! that are no more: / All sunk beneath the wave, / Fast by their native shore.

Brad Brownell

We've kind of been beneath the radar all year. People haven't talked about us that much.

Paul Di Filippo

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.

David Jackson

Most Americans think agricultural work is beneath them.

Xinhua Agency

Waves of the explosion pushed down the temple, and some people were buried beneath the debris.

George Williams

I was getting a piece of plastic and there was a young cottonmouth beneath it,

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

Gideon Welles

This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.

Carl Sagan

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Harry Reid

The American people and our brave troops deserve better than a photo-op for the president and a pep-rally about Iraq. They deserve a plan. Unfortunately, today's event only served to highlight the fact that the president refuses to engage in a frank conversation about the realities on the ground,

Gwen Stefani

That was the first time we'd worked outside the group with songwriters, and it was really awkward. That's what defines us as a band, writing, so it was a brave and crazy experiment, It was uncomfortable in the studio, but Hella Good has become one of our staple songs,

Stella Young

I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.

Tom Baker

Valor never dies as long as brave souls, willingly give their lives for our freedom. Some may take this sacrifice for granted, while parents of these soldiers pray for the safety of their children. These young men and women who protect our great country in battlefields throughout the world fight for our freedom. We must pray for their safe return, and give honor to those who have fallen.

Preston Sturges

I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character.

Michele Jackson

Michael was a strong, brave man who went through a lot of battles.

Nicholas Garganas

The overall picture is that the recovery is broadening and deepening. My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace than generally expected.

Jeff Nelson

The 2-2 pitch was pretty close, ... The 3-2 fastball wasn't.

Jason Maynard

The acquisition has effectively expanded Red Hat's market opportunity in one of the fastest growing sectors of software.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Ian Harrington

That was a terrible pitch. I left a fastball up and he made me pay for it.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Quincy Allen

That was two minutes faster than Tuesday and four minutes faster than Monday.

Sean Whalen

That was the first time she's swam it this year and it's the fastest on your team this year.

Sam Dresser

That way, we take out that player, put in a faster runner, and maybe score a run.

Bill Burr

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

Robert Patterson

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

Lynn Williams

I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.

Dave Barry

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

Chief Seattle

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Chief Seattle

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle

We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?

Chief Seattle

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Thomas Streicher

These things take a tremendous toll on the officers,

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.