Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynne Ambrosini

Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.

Diane Kruger

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.

Diane Kruger

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

Justin Welby

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Anatole Broyard

She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.

Brad Goreski

Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!

Charles de Gaulle

I cannot prevent the French from being French

Charles Dickens

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Al Sharpton

President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

Basil Bunting

All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

David Neeleman

You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.

A. N. Wilson

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

Cesare Pavese

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

Charlie Munger

We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

David Horowitz

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

Edna O'Brien

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Barbara Tuchman

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

bell hooks

Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

Albert Schweitzer

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

E. Helm

Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.

Dustie Robertson

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dennis Prager

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

Denholm Elliott

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Dean Ornish

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.