Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Millman

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

Corrie Ten Boom

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Cornelia Funke

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.

Cormac McCarthy

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.

Cormac McCarthy

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

Cormac McCarthy

Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp his fallen corporeality. An oiled thumball redolent of lime and sage pondered his shuttered lids.Miserere mei, Deus ...His ears anointed, his lips ... omnis maligna discordia ... Bechrismed with scented oils he lay boneless in a cold euphoria. Japheth when you left your father's house the birds had flown. You were not prepared for such weathers. You'd spoke too lightly of the winter in your father's heart. We saw you in the streets. Sad.

Cormac McCarthy

Last words are only words.

Cliff Richard

I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is.

Dwight L. Moody

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

Coventry Patmore

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'

Coventry Patmore

A woman is a foreign land.

Courtney Love

I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

Colin Quinn

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

We shipped more units than we have ever shipped this last quarter.

Estelle

Walking round the Champs-Elysees late at night is the greatest time.

Stephen Hawking

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Andrew Motion

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness

Adam McKay

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

Lou Holtz

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Buzz Osborne

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

Burt Bacharach

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

Adam Schiff

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

This sets us back. It's still early, but if we're not on the land by about May 10, we lose tremendous yields.

This sends a strong message to growers that the law will not tolerate requiring workers to work off the clock.

This will last a lot longer than a party night.

This will be the last powder puff race he gets. From here on out it's going to be all heavyweights.

This will be the last powder puff race he gets. From here on out, it's going to be all heavyweights.

Jeff Cook

This will be one of our largest premarkets we've ever had.

Matt Brown

This was a much-needed match for us after two rainouts last week. We wanted to get a competitive match in before the Big North on Thursday and this is just what we needed.

Matt Brown

This was a much-needed match for us after two rainouts last week, ... We wanted to get a competitive match in before the Big North on Thursday and this is just what we needed.

There is only a disagreement about timing, and that relates specifically to the timelines laid down by the United Nations in relation to inspections.