Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Alan Parker

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Alan Arkin

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

Alan Arkin

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

Al Sharpton

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Al Pacino

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

Bhagavad Gita

Verily there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. One who becomes purified by Karma-yoga discovers this knowledge within (naturally) in course of time. (See also 4.31, and 5.06).

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

E. O. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

Sean McAlinden

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

Debbie Ford

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Victor Hugo

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.

James Greenwood

The possible cloning of human beings is now not relegated to the world of fiction, and the question to the world is this -- what should we do with this science?

Dennis Poust

We strongly object on a moral level to the destruction of human beings at any stage of development for research.

Max Heindel

There are various grades of spiritual sight. One grade enables a man to see the ordinarily invisible ether with the myriads of beings that invest that realm. Other and higher variants give him the faculty to see the desire world and even the world of thought while remaining in the physical body.

Niall Ferguson

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

Buddha

Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Kevin Lowe

We're proud to have him. As human beings and in life and in this country, I think a big part of being Canadian is being able to forgive.

Kent Hill

With the number of countries now that have significant outbreaks of some sort, obviously there is more contact with human beings and that increases the possibility of ... a global human pandemic.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

Charles de Gaulle

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Karl Brown

We've got a team full of winners, they're not used to losing like this and they don't like it. The guys are giving everything they can, but right now we just can't seem to get the luck.

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.

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.

Byron Katie

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Jerry Johnson

We know 'Willie Time' is under two minutes. He's just an ordinary human being for the rest of the game.

Scott Horowitz

We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land.

Astro Teller

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

Charles Edison

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Dickens

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Chogyam Trungpa

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

Darren Shan

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Caitlin Flanagan

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Nobuyuki Oneda

We are seeing a steady recovery path in the electronics segment.

Diana Nyad

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

Arianna Huffington

Don't just climb the ladder, chart a new path.

Demi Lovato

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Roger Romines

We've got a really young team this year. If they stick with it, they have the potential to get one of those scholarships that are out there.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Robert Turner

We have just scratched the surface of our potential business.

Aubrey Edgmon

She's starting to realize the potential she has.

Jackie Parsley

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

Jesse Miltier

She's showing a lot of potential. It usually takes until they're about 3 years old for them to reach their potential, but she's there.

Joe Pokraka

She's only a freshman, but she has the potential to score a lot of points. She's very gifted, she has it all.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

Source Unknown

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Benny Hinn

God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.

Lynn Schusterman

As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.

Bible Bible

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Alexandra Adornetto

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

Clarence Darrow

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Yajur Veda

Truth can not be suppressed and always is the ultimate victor. So, we should tread on the righteous path.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Jessica Brown Findlay

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Theodore Roosevelt

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

Pink

I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.

Liam Hemsworth

I feel like it's the most boring thing, sitting on the treadmill or on a bike. It just explodes my mind!

Lara Rhame

At this point, they have very little ammo left, and they will need to tread carefully.

Samuel Olson

They are treading water to see what's going to happen.