Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.

Zadie Smith

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

Christo

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

Christo

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

Natalie Massenet

I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

Brian Shea

The allocation that you've arrived at is what you felt was your best chance (to make money), ... If the market is not doing well, that's part of the normal stock pattern. ... Focus on the long term.

Pico Iyer

I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

C. S. Lewis

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

Bill Vaughan

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

Bill Vaughan

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

Bill Bradley

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

Gilbert Arenas

We can't look at it like we are however many games ahead, we've been down that path before. We hold our own destiny from here on out.

H. Hunt

We have to win the game to have any chance. They (August Town) have taken the lead and so destiny is not in our hands any more.

Tom Wood

We've kind of got our own destiny in our own hands. But from No. 5 to No. 14, if they listed that far, we're all in a tight cluster.

William Shakespeare

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

Cormac McCarthy

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Yevgeny Primakov

The American representatives on these inspection operations should not be ousted, but probably they should recruit more international personnel -- from France, Germany and even Russian experts,

Paul Mooney

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Gerhard Schroeder

We can only point out that not only is Germany sad, but there are signs of solidarity from the whole world,

E. B. White

He was so funny. He was our unofficial tour guide. I was surprised how much he knew (about Germany and France).

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

David Aebischer

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Adolf Hitler

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Dave Parker

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Charlaine Harris

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

David Hilbert

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

William Shakespeare

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

Carl Honore

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Bertrand Russell

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.