Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

Chuck Smith

Mike King knew Peg Collier, whatever she sent in, would get beaten down. Mike King knew there was going to be kicking, fighting and screaming before (the bill) got to the entity authorized to pay.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Peder Tuborgh

Freedom of expression is an internal Danish issue, but this has a totally different dimension. This is about Denmark having offended millions of Muslims.

Susanne Bier

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

Amr Khaled

The Danish government should do a lot of things. The government should apologize.

Pierce Brosnan

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.

Goeran Persson

When we get to our referendum, nobody will be talking about the Danish referendum,

Charlotte Simonsen

We have never marketed ourselves as a Danish product, we see ourselves as an international brand.

Anders Rasmussen

We deeply respect all religions, including Islam, and it is important for me to tell you that the Danish people have no intention to offend Muslims.

Amiruddin Saud

Starting today (Wednesday), we will halt imports of Danish goods as our way of protesting the publication of the cartoons.

Navtej Sarna

India and Denmark look forward to the visit of the Danish prime minister to India at an early date.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Marianne Williamson

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

Carl Jung

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Demetri Martin

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

C. S. Lewis

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,

Quentin Blake

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

Al Pacino

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Michael Scheuer

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Kurt Vonnegut

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

Dan Quayle

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Kate Chopin

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

H. L. Mencken

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

Patrick Rothfuss

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Learned Hand

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Lee Child

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.