Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Dickens

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Charles Dickens

In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

Charles Stanley

I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

Charles Spurgeon

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Charles Spurgeon

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Alan Watts

Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to throw quality strikes, not just hard strikes. He's going to be a contributor for us this year. Maybe not from day one, but at some point this season he'll be a factor for us.

Romeo Crennel

Working with the quarterback and being able to handle the offense is a major factor with the GMs throughout the league,

P. J. O'Rourke

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

Michael Roth

there are times when even great work is not enough to overcome other factors that destabilize a relationship.

Ceeon Quiett

We're looking at it and there are lots of factors you have to consider.

Stefan Sagmeister

It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.

Kim Fields

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Chris Christie

We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Chris Alexander

We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

David Shore

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Casey Affleck

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

William Shakespeare

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

David Hockney

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

Edwin Louis Cole

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

Bill O'Reilly

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.