Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Pat Camden

The police officer was protecting himself and the customers in the shop, ... His actions could very well have saved lives today.

Bradley Byrne

I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must stand up against this vile enemy and protect United States citizens both at home and abroad.

Bruce Jackson

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

Victoria Osteen

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

Barack Obama

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Xun Zi

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Xun Zi

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

Isabel Sanford

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

Chuck Palahniuk

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Billy Graham

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Jeff Hawkins

The Pilot was born in desperation. When all your other options are closed, you might as well try to do the right thing.

Ramon Magsaysay

The PIATCO contract was not entered into by the administration, it was in fact nullified by it. The North Rail, and other government projects and charges of diversion allegations of public funds for campaign activities, are also not borne out by facts.

Bee Wilson

One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

Denis Villeneuve

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Bill Cosby

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

Nancy Gibbs

I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.

Pierce Brosnan

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

Richard Jefferies

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.

Tony Johnson

We wanted to maintain the integrity of the older home, preserving the charm and feel.

Mohamed El-Erian

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

Jason Segel

I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.

Peter Capaldi

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.

Hal Sparks

The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

Bill Cosby

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

Mohamed El-Erian

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

Jason Segel

I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.

Charles Baudelaire

Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend. It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread.

Leonard Maltin

He's got it all. He's got charm, he's got looks, he's got brains, he's got a conscience. He has everything any movie star could want to have, any director or producer, and then some.

David Cameron

I would say it is more homely than chi-chi but all the more charming for that,

Peter Carlisle

He could be very cordial and charming when he was cooperating with you, and there were other times he could be reptilian as to how cold he was.

Peter Sarnak

He is very charming and not arrogant. I think he will find himself having a tremendous number of graduate students because he has kind of a magnetic personality.

Charles Jackson

He was very understanding, ... He was very kind. He was very charming.

Bill Vaughan

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

Bill Vaughan

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

William Shakespeare

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

Sean Payton

I worked with Joe at the Eagles and the one thing you can say is that his players always excel.

Chip Kelly

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Chanakya

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

English 16th Century Proverbs

Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

Bill Moyers

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.

Gilbert White

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

Gilbert White

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

Gilbert White

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

Gilbert White

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Gilbert White

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

William Kirby

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

William Kirby

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

George Porter

We are rewarded for work the very essence of which is that we were so impatient that we spent only a millionth of a second over an experiment.

Frederick Sanger

From 1944 to 1951 I held a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, and since 1951 I have been on the staff of the Medical Research Council.

Atharva Veda

We are birds, O camel-like mind; the Lord, the Immortal Primal Being, is the tree.

William Shakespeare

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

Damien Hirst

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Brian Eno

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Christopher Marlowe

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss

Cornelia Funke

Words are immortal - Elinor

Cassandra Clare

love isnt mortal or immortal. it just is

Gregory Maguire

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

J. K. Rowling

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

Emily Lau

I think the people have spoken very loudly and clearly,

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Nick Earls

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Daniel Berrigan

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

J. Tillman

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Andrew Wright

This is not about publishing to the world.

Russell Perreault

I don't think there's any such thing as a coincidence in publishing anymore.

John Cusack

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

Robert Gottlieb

The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.