Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

I honestly can’t tell you. We’ve never had a situation like this before, “I admitted. “So you being an angel doesn’t meam…” He hesitated. “Doesn’t mean I have an answer for everything,” I concluded for him. “I just assumed it would be one of the perks.” “Sadly, no.

Alexandra Adornetto

Beth: "You're ridiculous." Xavier: "I think you mean irresistible." Beth: "Yes, ridiculously irresistible.

Albert Schweitzer

What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Cindy Sheehan

Mr. President, you mean you're willing to kill more Americans because you've killed so many already?

Christopher Lawrence

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

Terrence McNally

My first play was written when I was 23, and I'm 66 now, so that's 43 years of doing this where I sort of know where everything is. It doesn't mean I do everything right, but I know where everything is. Here, I'm very much a visitor. New York is my turf and I'm used to working with my actors.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Diane Lane

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Deana Carter

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

Earl Nightingale

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

Elizabeth Drew

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

Elfriede Jelinek

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Deepak Chopra

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania,

Samuel Butler

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Hong Feng

When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot.

W. S. Gilbert

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Gary Lloyd

I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby since then.

Jane Austen

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

Larry Neal

I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.

Diana Quick

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

Raquel Welch

I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?