Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Diane Vazza

Rising stars still outpace fallen angels globally, though the gap is narrower than in 2005, when the number of rising stars exceeded that of fallen angels by the biggest margin since 1997.

Curtis Sliwa

Remember, none of this would have come about if there weren't interest to have Guardian Angels from people.

Henry Shaw

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.

William Shakespeare

Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" "If I did?

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?” I asked. “If I did?” “I don’t like it.” He grinned. “It stays. Angel.” He leaned across the table, raised his hand to my face, and brushed his thumb along one corner of my mouth. I pulled away, too late.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are we going to have to teach you to fight, Angel?

Dave Whelan

Paul and myself are not talking about Europe just yet. The ambition was to stay in the Premier League and we look like we're going to fulfill that ambition. We never thought we would get to the final of the League Cup. It's fairytale stuff.

John Gray

Some people are just more spiritual than others and I really had a strong ambition to know God,

Billy Corgan

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.

Berthe Morisot

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

C. S. Lewis

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

Carrie Fisher

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Bette Davis

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Erik Morales

Last Saturday night I run into a guy with a lot of ambition who wanted to win very much. Was in great condition and was obviously well prepared to fight me.

Char Miller

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

Bill Shankly

First is first,Second is nothing

C. S. Lewis

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Cecil Rhodes

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

Carl Orff

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Antonia Fraser

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!

Bill Vaughan

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.