Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

Jolanda Schreurs

We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.

Terry Pendleton

We struck up a conversation right then like we'd known each other for years. Since then, it'd been that way.

Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Steve Chapman

We're making light of the subject itself. And they look pretty funny. They're good conversation pieces.

Baltasar Gracian

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Scott Dover

Throughout the conversation, he (Angle) threatened to come out of the house with a firearm, despite pleas by the negotiator for him to come out unarmed.

Kate Forsyth

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

Lewis Carroll

Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

Michael Barrett

Where I hit in the lineup shouldn't dictate my performance. It has no correlation. I just have to get good pitches to hit.

Steve Simmons

We'd like to be in a position to utilize our bench. But the game will dictate that.

David Yalof

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

Willie Randolph

We're going to let Pedro pretty much dictate when he's ready to get on the mound or do whatever he wants to do. We're going to let him take his time. He's a veteran. He knows what he needs to do. We don't need to put any schedules on him because that can always change.

Kyrsten Sinema

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

Thomas Jane

It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before.

John Scalzi

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

Ferdinand Buisson

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

Nate Waite

We did the things that we wanted to do rather than let the other team dictate what we do. We wanted to keep possession and utilize our speed in our attack. There were times where we got a little shaky.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Dan Williams

Tomorrow, Monday, September 12, 2005, the Israeli army's 38-year presence in the Gaza Strip will come to an end, ... We are leaving with our heads high.

Ariel Sharon

I have given an order to plan for the evacuation of 17 settlements in the Gaza Strip.

Hillary Clinton

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

John Milton

Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

Zeev Boim

Those who think that after the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, there will be withdrawal number two or number three are mistaken about this government.

Silvan Shalom

We would like to see the Gaza model succeeds,

Mahmoud Abbas

It is an important day in our people's history in Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, where all settlements will be removed out of our lands forever,

Jibril Rajoub

It is in everybody's interest that the model of Gaza will work ,

Yitzhak Rabin

I would like Gaza to sink into the sea, but that won't happen, and a solution must be found,

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Arne Glimcher

Everything happens through relationships.

Edgar Bergen

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Bill Murray

Be available for life to happen.

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Tom Pecora

We're getting there. We still haven't had a night where everyone is playing their total A-game. But that's OK. I'm hoping that happens next weekend.

Red Cavaney

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?

Charles Caleb Colton

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Charles Caleb Colton

Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

Alanis Morissette

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Alan Watts

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Alan Moore

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Robin Cook

We want the peace talks to resume on all tracks as soon as possible,

Chip Conley

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.