Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

An individual human existence should be like a river

Minna Antrim

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

David Giuntoli

We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that.

David R. Brower

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

David R. Brower

Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.

David R. Brower

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

Buffalo Bill

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

Lynn Ford

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

Bette Davis

I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire

Antoine Rivarol

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

Bertrand Russell

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.

Dave Bailey

That was unprecedented. Nobody has ever gotten Fire Officer of the Year two times.

Tom Tylutki

That weapon was fired at least 20 times.

Matt Sylvester

We could hear Davidson down the hall partying and yelling and screaming. I think he wanted it to light a fire under us. ... The seniors just wanted to make sure this wasn't the last time we all played together, the last time this team was going to be together. And we made that point to each other.

Rick Ruffin

We just didn't play with the fire this team usually plays with ... I am a little disappointed with that.

Malala Yousafzai

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Nermine Othman

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,