Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sumner

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Charles de Gaulle

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

Charles Caleb Colton

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Dickens

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Charles Dickens

Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

Charles Spurgeon

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.

Chris Cleave

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

Diablo Cody

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

David Sedaris

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

William Shakespeare

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

Ed Bradley

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Bear Grylls

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Bertolt Brecht

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

Aasif Mandvi

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

Bill Watterson

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Chelsea Handler

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

Chelsea Handler

Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.

Thomas Middleditch

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.

Taylor Chace

I want to go to Vancouver in 2010. I already want to win the gold.

Grimes

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Ryan Reynolds

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sarah Chalke

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.