Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Chogyam Trungpa

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Carl Sagan

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

Byron Katie

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Cesare Pavese

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Donna Dubinsky

We are pleased to report such outstanding results in our second quarter as a public company. We continue to see broad acceptance of our products and the Springboard platform across all regions of the world. We feel very positive about our position as we head into the holiday season.

William Duncan

There are certainly states where you will find acceptance,

Eartha Kitt

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Hani Durzy

The Reagan memorabilia runs the gamut of his life, everything from an original bumper sticker from the 1980 election to magazine covers and T-shirts. It just shows that Reagan had many admirers.

Caroline DeWaal

Last year, there was a bumper crop of food-borne illnesses from FDA-regulated foods.

Mark Ruffalo

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.

Tony Stewart

Guys are doing it in the middle of the corner, coming off it and coming on. It's softening the front bumper because it's the guys that are doing the hitting. Trust me, I did my share of it, too.

John Banks

What is benefitted properties of the lake? Is it just those that are adjacent to the lake or, as in Rice Lake, is it the Lake District, the entire city and properties on the west side of Rice Lake? ... Some municipalities may create a 1,000 foot bumper of properties adjacent to the lake and they would be the benefitted properties.

Rick Glancey

When you look at the Volkswagen, the bumper of the pick-up truck forced itself all the way back to the top of the roof of the car. That indicates that he was coming so fast that he was literally underneath that Ford F-150.

Paul Mooney

To me, the peace sign is about supporting our troops. I feel like I have to have bumper stickers now. It (angers) some people ... I don't want to offend people ... (but) I can't just sit there and take it.

Dale Nordquist

We need another bumper yield like we had last year or this is going to be a very difficult year to make ends meet.

Adrian Lund

SUVs can have the same utility they do today and still be equipped with decent bumper systems that extend down to where they match up with those on cars, ... Until then, motorists who bump into mismatched vehicles, even at very low speeds, will have no choice but to open their wallets.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Charles Dickens

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Charles Caleb Colton

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Chris Bangle

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

David Pogue

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

Carlos Slim

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

Luke Nosek

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

David Ulevitch

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

Dee Hock

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The most important thing is to keep trying.

Dennis Kucinich

Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.

Edwin Land

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

Bill Womack

We're in a good spot right now. Now we just got to gear up for (Central) and keep it going.

Jeff Hamilton

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

Mark Richt

We're going to make sure he's the primary target a lot. We have more pass plays than I've ever had in our offense that are geared toward the tight end.

Ron Lemieux

We're gearing up for the future. We look to be the gateway, the logistical hub of the world for circumpolar navigation.

Steve Kellar

We're gearing toward the playoffs. We're getting stronger.

Eric Maskin

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

Kerri Strug

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

Jim Tracy

Oliver knows how to gear himself up for situations. But, while he was gearing up, he was maintaining his focus.

Mike Machowsky

She always had talent, but mentally ... she would get geared up and wound up.

Dave Barry

We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

Nellie McKay

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

Samantha Quigley

Yeah, it did. I thought it was going to hit the fence, so I was going so fast. Then I saw it went over and I was like, 'All right, all right.' The wind may have gotten it a bit, but I'll take it.

Rick Johnson

We're going to get serious. We've been playing around with this for too long, ... It's gotten totally out of hand.

Charlie Norwood

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Kenneth Bonert

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Ellen Gerton

Maggie has worked really hard and her skills have gotten so much better.

Kristen Schaal

I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.

Ezra Klein

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Adam Allen

When you think of all the teams and we're the only two left in 4A, it's unreal. To be one of those two teams ... it's awesome.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Nathan Parsons

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

Robin Williams

What's right is what's left when everything is wrong.

William Mitchell

What's left is his, ... So, the man isn't getting rich.

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Henry James

Most of the time they can get the loan, but it's not 100 percent. The owner usually has to come up with 35 to 40 percent of the money.

Ed Miliband

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Dan Walters

We recognize that this is something that our owners want.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

Dan Rooney

I would say we're partners with the players now. There's owners that would resist it now, but ... I really think that's the way it should be.

Brian Regan

The owner tends to source these things separately,

Greg Varela

(Kim) pinned him in 20 seconds three weeks ago. For a freshman, he wants to win. He understands how important it is to us.

Todd Matthews

His kickoffs pinned them back in their own end and that was key.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

C. S. Lewis

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Thomas Massie

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better,

Joseph Pusateri

We were always taking a back seat to him.

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Lyle Lovett

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Megan Challender

My seat will be empty. I'm non-violently protesting.

Dan Rather

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.