Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

We could have no communication whatever with our surroundings if they were absolutely foreign to us. Man is reaping success every day, and that shows there is a rational connection between him and nature, for we never can make anything our own except

We have used civil disobedience in the past, but only when it has been absolutely necessary.

Bill Clinton

We believe the limits of the human condition prevent anyone from having the absolute truth. That's the whole idea of this University, isn't it?

Reza Aslan

Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.

Scott Rudin

You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.

Rodney Stark

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.

Marquis de Lafayette

The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy.

Paul Engle

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

Olivier Theyskens

When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

Margrethe II of Denmark

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.'

Pico Iyer

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Paul Auster

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Patti Smith

I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was 'Just Kids,' for which I had absolutely no expectations.

Reese Witherspoon

I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.

Phil Anselmo

It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great thrash metal bands in the middle '80s and what-not. But then, take me out of New Orleans, and I moved to Fort Worth in 1987, and there's a scene there, too. And Texas absolutely has a different sound.

Time is of the absolute essence if we are to restore the public's trust.

Eric Schmidt

We have all made commitments to the government that we will absolutely follow Chinese law. We don't have any alternative.

Wayne Gretzky

We have a lot of hurdles to overcome, but there's a definite light in the tunnel here. Are we satisfied with what's happened (this season)? Absolutely not. But more and more pieces of the puzzle are in place.

You are going to have double the traffic at the worst time. They can't widen the road (because there's no room). It's going to be an absolute nightmare.

Louis Farrakhan

You are absolutely correct. The Millions More Movement is for all of us. . . . Please be assured that any member of our community that has gifts, skills, and talents to plan for the redemption of our people will be welcomed at the table.

We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it.

We will absolutely be competitive with Wal-Mart this holiday season.

We will reach a decision in the NATO council at the latest on Saturday after the sitting of the Security Council which absolutely corresponds to the interests of Turkey,

We've made significant progress on the relevancy of our results and have to invest on improving that area. The 250 number absolutely gives us the right level of depth.

We've looked into the allegations. There's absolutely no truth to it.

We have checked with all of our operation commanders, and operations are absolutely normal around the world.

We're working very hard to stop the expulsion, but we have absolutely no plans to leave of our own accord.

We're very proud of how our museum is displaying this art. And the art is absolutely spectacular.

Usually you are pretty happy with two eagles in a week, never mind the same nine. The conditions were absolutely perfect for us.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Polly Walker

I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy a cookery book and take it to bed and read it.