Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Barzun

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

Francisco Goya

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

Francisco Costa

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

Horace Mann

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Evan Davis

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

Erin Hunter

Oh, and welcome to the Three.

Jack Vance

What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

Gary Busey

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

Christopher Flavin

The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating capacity worldwide. This is over three times nuclear generating capacity and roughly 38 percent of the capacity of fossil fuel-burning power plants worldwide.

Christian Bale

We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Jennifer Hudson

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

George William Curtis

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

George Saintsbury

So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

Jeffrey Archer

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Felix Frankfurter

Morals are three-quarters manners.

Sylvia Hatchell

I'd play three (point guards) if I had them.

Jesse Owens

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Margaret Spellings

And what we do today will probably be not what we're going to do in three years from now.

To be honest, that's what I wanted. I didn't want to have to go into day three going, 'Is this the day we're going to come back?' I didn't want to come back. I wanted to set everything up and win it outright.

This one-quarter surge in profitability has been more than three years in the making.

We just see it as three games. It's it's own entity. That's our only focus.

Brian Murphy

We had 500 critical-care patients. We had only three deaths.

Billy Graham

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

Ann Landers

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, ""What happened?

Marcello Lippi

Tonight we showed we can play with three strikers.

We don't think it was any more than two or three days.

We are two or three weeks away from resolving the corrosion issue.

Chauncey Billups

We're trying to get back to our winning ways right. That's more important. We still have three more games.

The top three are very close. That's why this weekend is so important.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

We don’t want civilians walking around who know about us. Got it? (Tee) Wow, you’re like a ferocious bunny, aren’t you? (Nathan) Worse. A bunny can be fluffy sometimes. Tee always goes for the throat. Trust me. I’m her partner and she’s shot me three times now. (Joe)

Sherry Stringfield

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

Nikola Tesla

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.