Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Sergio Ramos

Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We all know that a loss would be a disaster.

Swami Ramdas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Jonathan Bass

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

Becca Fitzpatrick

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

J. C. Watts

Roger is going to jail for this contract. I don't know what more they want him to do.

Bhagat Singh

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

Bill Hicks

Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.

James Fitzgerald

He just did not wish to spend all his life in a jail in Colorado. He wanted better jail conditions.

Geoffrey Fieger

I can tell you what the results will be if he represents himself. He will go to jail and starve.

Jimmy Brown

It is probably the worst-run jail I can remember seeing in my 30 years of practice. It's not working. It's broken.

E. O. Wilson

He's going to jail for us and I think the symbolism is he's not doing this alone.

Edwin Ortiz

I was going to be in jail the rest of my life, so I might as well try something to get out.

Albert Ellis

He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of that.

James Beattie

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

Bryant H. McGill

There are enough resources in the world for everyone.

Alain de Botton

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

William Shakespeare

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

David Niven

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Gordon Graham

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.

Jack Bruce

Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.

Democritus

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.