Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Brian Flynn

We are seeing a lot of buyers priced out of Cambridge and Somerville looking in the Hillside. You can find a nice home in this neighborhood for $50,000 less than you'd pay in Somerville.

Richard Cripps

What this does is it keeps buyers away. It's a lack of buyers. And they would prefer some certainty.

Andrew Milligan

We would still be buyers of oil stocks if we felt reassured that supply was going to be constrained in 2006, which we do.

Diep Kiet

With much stronger competition worldwide, especially from China, garment buyers are now demanding more and better services from producers.

Jack Baker

Until earnings and forecasts start turning around, we are going to stay stuck in this tight trading range. There is no incentive for buyers to get back in the market.

Gary Wolf

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

Mark Templin

Since the launch of Scion three years ago, designers have learned a great deal about what inspires and motivates Scion buyers through its unique vehicle lineup and instilled them into the FUSE.

Julian Phillips

The real driver of the gold price continues to be lack of selling, leaving a small volume of investment/speculative buyers calling the shots.

David Howell

There is no doubt that buyers have more leverage than they did a year ago.

Jim Leach

We stressed that delay was not in anybody's interest, either procedurally or substantively,

Joe Hills

We're talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Barney Frank

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Prescott White

We actually delayed the encore so West and his management could see what was going on.

Ban Ki-moon

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

Tom Cirigliano

We're filing the suit to make sure our interests are protected. We have no intention to interfere with or delay the pending transaction between BP Amoco and Arco.

Chris Riley

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Boris Yeltsin

We lack rubles, and that's where the delays come from,

Boris Gryzlov

The process of Russia joining the WTO should only be favorable. There are no alternatives ... Otherwise it will be delayed for the long term.

John Phillips

The other team played pretty well. If we eliminate that one inning, we could've had the game.

Gene Caslin

We're starting to click. We've been playing a lot of 1-2-2, just a flat-iron zone, and we're forcing teams to shoot it from the outside. We're trying to eliminate all of their penetration and that's what's happened the last (few games). I think we're going to be OK.

Jay Grossman

We're going to eliminate 3,000 management positions, as we've always said, and those are not going to necessarily be layoffs,

Mark Everson

We're moving aggressively to reduce the tax gap, ... But no one should think we can totally eliminate the gap. That would take Draconian measures and make the government too intrusive. We have to strike the right balance.

Kori Bernards

We're going after individuals as well as big-name organizations. The goal is to eliminate Internet piracy at all levels.

Timothy Noah

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

Timothy Noah

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

Bill Miller

We're grateful, and it's going to eliminate a very serious situation here. It's a long time coming, and it's something this township needs.

Dana Walden

We're asking, 'prophet or madman'? We don't want to eliminate the negative. We want to tell a well-rounded story, which means that his fate is in his own hands. There will be people who think that he's a madman and people who think that he's a prophet.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Austan Goolsbee

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

Dave Munson

With the investment we make in that zoo, it's a large investment. We want to make sure it's managed to it's maximum.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Bill Swank

We're looking at it as an investment on our part.

Chin-Ning Chu

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

David Mitchell

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

Catherine Crier

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

Earl Browder

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Charlie Munger

We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

Charlie Munger

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

Albert Schweitzer

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

Joe Pavelski

The outcomes have been really good. I just like playing here.

Deepak Chopra

Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Bill Davoren

She has the potential to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest.

Robert Turner

We have just scratched the surface of our potential business.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Aubrey Edgmon

She's starting to realize the potential she has.

Jackie Parsley

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

Jesse Miltier

She's showing a lot of potential. It usually takes until they're about 3 years old for them to reach their potential, but she's there.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Alan Watts

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

Alan Jay Lerner

There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

Alan Ayckbourn

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Alain Robert

I love all people, whatever race they are.

Al McGuire

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Chris Chocola

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living.

Chip Kidd

Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

Chief Joseph

I know that my race must change.

Chief Joseph

The Indian race are waiting and praying.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

China Mieville

While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

Camille Paglia

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Benjamin Franklin

No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Elia Kazan

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

Edward Witten

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

Ann Brashares

Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.

Dwight L. Moody

There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty.

George W. Bush

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

Eugene Wigner

The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

Stephane Dion

It would take years with a really uncertain outcome,

Henry Schacht

These are uncertain times. We've got on our belts, suspenders, parachutes and skyhooks,

Jack Straw

In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Charles Dickens

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Stanley

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Charles Stanley

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Alan Alda

If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.

Al Pacino

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.