Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Daniel

Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.

Isabella Bird

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

Chip Conley

The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the L.A. freeways. But, thankfully, we live in an era in which neuroscientists are teaching us about the malleability of our brain and the emotionally contagious nature of our workplaces.

Alexander MacLaren

'The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

Alexander MacLaren

''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.

Jeffrey Joerres

We will be turning this barren site into a phenomenal building site. This will have a positive impact for Milwaukee.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Henry Cabot Lodge

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Jim Gillespie

People want to move where it's warm and where the coasts are. As long as more people want to move in than homes are being built, we're going to continue to see an imbalance.

Ian Frazier

Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

Matthew Davis

Yesterday's good rate may well be unobtainable tomorrow -- leading to unpredictable hotel coasts and, occasionally, an inability to obtain a suitable room,

Clint Hurdle

The problem you have there, and it's from my learning experience, is when you have one and you're not really sure of him, you keep using him -- and he keeps not getting the job done. You think, 'This is the right move.' Unfortunately, I've fallen into that trap.

Sarah Roemer

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

Dan Buckner

Until they search each and every remaining house and remove all the fallen materials ... they will not know how many people are there.

Alex Salmond

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Lin Laing

So many of these people have fallen through the cracks.

Antonio Porchia

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

Dar Williams

But for every price, and every penence that I could think ofIt's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all

Bruce McCulloch

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party." ()

Alan Tudyk

I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

Charles Dickens

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Alan Bean

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

Alan Alda

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Chesley Sullenberger

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

Michael Shaw

Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?

Brandon Routh

One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

Charles M. Schulz

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

Bob Hope

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

C. S. Lewis

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

Thomas Erskine

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Byron Katie

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

Carlos Santana

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Jane Austen

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

Charles Spurgeon

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Thomas Moore

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

John T. Flynn

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Adlai E. Stevenson

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Martha Beck

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Bill Engvall

I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Mack Brown

Pete says if you're talking about the streak and thinking about the streak, it's going to come to an end.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Brittany Snow

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

Stefano Gabbana

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

Jeffrey Kessler

When someone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

C. S. Lewis

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

Aaron Sorkin

When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

Charlotte Bronte

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

Charlotte Bronte

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

Charlotte Bronte

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

Charles de Lint

Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.

Charles Dickens

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.