Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Hannah

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

Li Ruoyu

I hope more sound, elated songs will be written, so that we can grow up happy and contented in a world of children's lovely songs.

Mr Howard

The family would have been more contented with five years imprisonment. They feel that justice has not been done as far as the sentencing is concerned. They feel let down by the system.

William Hazlitt

The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are.

Juvenal

No man's contented just so much to sin - As you may license him

William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.

Kate Christensen

Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

Jonathan Swift

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly

Lewis Thomas

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

Saddam Hussein

I just wanted to be able to reach at least half of the show's estimated viewers.

David Orr

Initially, we estimated the number of people in need was about one million and we had reached about 50 percent of them. We've had a food security team in the field and they've revised the estimate up quite dramatically.

Val Charlton

The circumference of the fire is an estimated 50km.

John Challenger

A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, blanketing them with resumes, and then waiting for callbacks. It is a formula for long-drawn-out joblessness.

Chris Evans

The Italian-based horse is worth somewhere around $10 million after winning six of seven major races and finishing second in the seventh. If he is going to win in Tokyo and perform like this next year, his value could reach an estimated $30 million.

Peter Piot

The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level ever at an estimated 40.3 million people.

Terri Smith

They are estimated higher than what they will actually be,

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Samir Haj

Karen has been our go-to person on the junior varsity team. We're going to incorporate more people into the scheme. We're going to start playing 18 people instead of just 13 or 14.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bob Johnson

Hopefully, we can have one large one instead of several smaller ones.

Henry Ward Beecher

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Baruch Spinoza

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Edmund Burke

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Aristotle

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Aeschylus

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Saul Alinsky

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Rick Warren

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

Christopher Paolini

I like to think that he possesses my better traits, ... But he is very much his own person.

Elizabeth Smart

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.