Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Trilby Lundberg

The gasoline price has broken records repeatedly in 2005, but until September 9 it did not exceed the true all-time high.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Yvette Jones

We're happy the judge ruled in our favor but we're dealing with members of our family and alumni, I'm just hoping that in the next coming weeks, months, and years we can rebuild that relationship.

David Mendoza

We needed a good start because (the Patriots) were coming out fired up, ... We wanted to show that we're ready, too.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Nigel Gault

Energy prices were rising before Katrina hit, and while those costs didn't make their way through to finished goods in August, we have to expect higher core inflation in coming months. Firms are saying that they've absorbed so much already that they have to pass on these costs.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Alfred Kugel

Earnings are coming in 'in line' with expectations. We should still be up 15 percent year-over-year and that's better than we did in the first half.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Dave Strang

Bermuda is coming back into its own because of location, quality, and sophistication. We're primarily an incentive destination, and insurance and financial groups are the ones doing upscale incentives.

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.

Dylan Thomas

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Dalai Lama

From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.

Dalai Lama

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

Dalai Lama

The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution of the earth element, then the water, fire and windelements. The color: appearance of a white vision, increase of the red element, black near-attainment, and finally the clear light of death.

Dalai Lama

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

Dalai Lama

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

Dalai Lama

If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

Dalai Lama

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Ralph Alvarez

A merger of flavors and spices has spilled over into fast food.

George Philpott

They were fast girls, and there were a lot of them, but with a swim here or a swim there, we probably could have moved up a few spots in the standings.

Justin Dombrowski

This happened so fast that firefighters just had to stop the fire without having time to evacuate.

Paul Quesnel

They're still moving sugar off the port so we're keeping our fingers crossed. All parties involved are working together to get the sugar off the port, however not as fast as we would have hoped.

Amy Sanders

They started out so fast but once we switched to a zone, they slowed down and we started to pick it up. Even though we don't use a lot of players, I think we're in pretty good shape and we don't slow down the whole game.

Tom Butler

They're about as big, fast and strong as Porum, ... Going in, we thought our two toughest opponents would come in Week 1 and 2.

Clint Robinson

It's tough to come here and win all three rounds in steer wrestling, so that was pretty neat. I have a real good horse, and when they are short scores it makes for fast times.

John Prescott

It's not moving as fast as we'd hoped it would,

James Cook

It's not how long your legs are; it's how fast you pick them up and put them down that counts.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

John Ruskin

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

John Ruskin

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

John Ruskin

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Masiela Lusha

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.