Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Bai Ling

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Carson McCullers

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carol Burnett

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.

Alan Garner

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

Eckhart Tolle

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

Edward Ruscha

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

Ben Jonson

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.

We've got a good flow of resumes, and we want that to continue. We want to get good folks interested in working for Nissan to put their resumes online.

We did a great job getting shots up. It seemed to flow for us right away.

We all know that Washington is a town in which the flow of important information is virtually nonstop,

We had a good flow on offense. A lot of different people stepped up. We didn't have to rely on Lindsay to do it all for us.

We turned it over too many times. Our offensive flow was off. We're just not with it.

The response from all the exhibitors is fantastic. It's been a steady flow all day long and that's what you want.

There's a flow to the game, but when you take penalties, there is no flow.

There's no getting around it until you get into the flow of things, especially as a reliever. It takes at least once to get out there and slow down.

What we are seeing is (a) flow making its way down the lower San Joaquin.

We just got the momentum and got into the flow of the game.

We mixed up our defenses a little better and I substituted a little earlier, which helped our legs. I thought we had better flow offensively, too.

Dustin Hoffman

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

Andy Grove

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

Andrew Mason

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Alexander Pope

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

Alexander Pope

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

Deepak Chopra

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

Deepak Chopra

A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.