Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Martin Freeman

There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.

Eckhart Tolle

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Eckhart Tolle

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

Max Heindel

It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.

Deepak Chopra

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Deepak Chopra

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Carlos Castaneda

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Agnes Varda

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Brian Cox

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

Brian Eno

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

David Allen

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

David Hare

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar

English 14th Century Proverbs

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

George Burley

They will be in the squad. We will look at things nearer the time but the team has done very well and I've been very pleased with them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust.

Bernard of Clairvaux

To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.

Charles Spurgeon

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

Buddha

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

Billy Graham

Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.

Larry Helmerick

The only salvation we'll have is if we do get moisture, and we're still waiting.

Bill Vaughan

The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.

Alphonsus Liguori

Mary obtains salvation for all who have recourse to her. Oh! If all sinners had recourse to Mary, who would ever be lost? ... He who is protected by her will be saved; he who is not will be lost.

Carol Shields

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

C. S. Lewis

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

C. S. Lewis

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

C. S. Lewis

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.

C. S. Lewis

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

C. S. Lewis

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Andre Agassi

When you're young, you can sleep in till 12,

Agnes Repplier

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

Charlotte Bronte

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.