Famous Quotes & Sayings

Atharva Veda

Renouncement of evils and sins helps in the attainment of prosperity and success.

James Stephens

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.

Louis D. Brandeis

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Benigno Aquino III

My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

Arnold Palmer

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Bhagavad Gita

They prescribe various specific rites for the attainment of pleasure and power to those who are full of desires, and hold the attainment of heaven as the highest goal of life. The rebirth is their fruit of action.

Ella Wilcox

If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait.

John Abernethy

There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.

Henry Mayhew

The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim; but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.

William Shakespeare

Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown;Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Jacques Chirac

(It) is contrary to the wishes of the (U.N.) Security Council and the international community,

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Dwayne Jones

I think it's one of the most intact of O'Neil Ford's houses remaining in Dallas. John has been very protective of this home. Many others would have torn it down to rebuild on such a desirable site.

Barbara Schneider

It isn't just a problem of the employee, it's a workplace problem that requires people to work together to make flex-time a real option that doesn't have negative repercussions with respect to job security and promotion. Rearranging work schedules to make people's lives more reasonable should be a desirable option.

William Poole

It is highly desirable that policy practice be formalized to the maximum possible extent,

Bill Gerstenmaier

It is incumbent on us to develop an executable option, or face the risk of a less desirable option being imposed upon us,

Hisashi Hieda

It is desirable for us not to take too much time.

M. Thompson

It increasingly seems that the U.S. is going to go it alone, which is the least desirable outcome.

Steve Wilson

I think you're going to see a lot of heavy things come in because of gas, ... The prices on the big SUVs and the heavy trucks are going to have to go down. They're just not as desirable anymore.

Richard Greene

If they're (cities) desirable places to live, ... it can explain a sustained high house price for years to come.

Todd Beitler

Lenders are selling properties at market value, especially if it's a desirable property. The lender who owns the property is not under any obligation to sell at any great discount.

Alain Botton

I find a welcome interest in the problems of everyday life. I find a humanity and a devotion to using thought to alleviate suffering.

Jessye Norman

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

John Nestor

We looked at private equity when we were considering hedge funds but there was no similar record of problems - evidence of fraud - that merited the devotion of inspection and other resources.

Charles Spurgeon

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Sathya Baba

Modesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

Gustav Krupp

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Saint Teresa of Avila

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

Elmer Jackson

We don't pray aloud. There are no religious classes, but we do have devotion each morning and we do have a New Testament and Old Testament survey. That is as far as we go.

W. S. Gilbert

Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.

Caitlin Moran

The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

W. S. Gilbert

Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.

Subhash Chandra

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

Richard Hurd

Reason stands aghast at the sight of an unprincipled, immoral, incorrigible public; And the word of God abounds in such threats and denunciations, as must strike terror into the heart of every believer.

Bible Bible

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. (Psalms 16:1)

Joyce Meyer

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.

James Cawley

Starship Farragut has proven it's legitimacy as a respectable film project. Within six months, they produced their series trailer starting from scratch and this is a significant achievement. God Speed Starship Farragut!

George Braun

That could have hurt us. Thanks god we had a big enough lead.

Robert Brown

O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, / And with God be the rest!

Anne Swetchine

Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles

Dwight Howard

Really, it's an honor and I thank God that the team looks at me that way. I just want to try and be the kind of player that they think I can be.

Sathya Baba

Man strays away into misery and pain, because he loses the sense of value and runs after the temporary and the trivial. He ignores the voice of God which warns and guides him from within; and he pays the penalty for the transgression.

Chamfort

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

Michael Klim

People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.

Luigi Pirandello

Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences

Maurice Cheeks

Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Kelly Ripa

Regis is not fired. He's just on special assignment. And we love each other.

Clare Balding

Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

Jessica Alba

Paul loves the water. It seems like that's where he's the most happy.

Bryn Terfel

People have come up to me in the street saying 'Hey Meatloaf, I love that song you do, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad,'

Phil Magney

People just want to track their loved ones. It?s as simple as that.

John Harrigan

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

James Alexander

People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it.

Richard Walker

People immediately love them because they think they are a lot cleverer than they really are.

Luis Diaz

People here are paying thousands to get their loved ones killed.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Jim Johnson

Our objective was to put an end to what we view as infringement of our package designs.

Rob Dyson

Our objective is to win the (ALMS) championship. It's the way we take each race and the way we run the team.

David Trimble

Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.

Steve Holeman

Our staff objective for the spring is always to prepare for the fall. We wanted to work with the team in different systems and with a variety of players in different positions - a lot of experimenting. That being the objective, I think we had a successful spring.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Ellen Thorsen

I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.

Todd Rundgren

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Ed Wade

I think public perception is a big part when you talk about selling,

Tim Allen

It bolsters the perception that this administration relies too much on spin.

Charles Olson

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

Deepak Chopra

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Brian Greene

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Eddie Trunk

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Anthony D'Angelo

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Hillary Clinton

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Elizabeth Gilbert

God is an experience of supreme love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.

Bethenny Frankel

Yoga is a gift that you give yourself.

Bethenny Frankel

I think that yoga, it really is a process.

Bethenny Frankel

Yoga has so many different practices. I don't really enjoy Ashtanga. I don't really enjoy Bikram because I don't like knowing what's coming.

Chris Evans

I always say I should do more yoga. Or do yoga - more would mean I do some. I've done none. But I always want to do yoga because I'm getting old. Nerves are getting pinched every other day, and I really just gotta get more limber.

Carnie Wilson

I started doing yoga.

Deepak Chopra

Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.

Deepak Chopra

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.

Deepak Chopra

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

Deepak Chopra

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.