Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

Charles Spurgeon

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Alan Alda

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Chris Christie

I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

Camille Paglia

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

Vince Carter

We still think we're a good team. We didn't get blown out of here (in Cleveland), for one. We're capable. We just have to step it up a little bit.

William Shakespeare

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

William Shakespeare

I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.

Alan Greenspan

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

Caroline Kennedy

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

Jack Shea

The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.

Louis Orr

We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us.

Lee Byung-hun

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Alan Moore

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Chambers

It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

Akhil Sharma

Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

Akira Kurosawa

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chester W. Nimitz

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Phil Nevin

Where is he? It's his first day, and he's already 20 minutes late. I hope someone is going to make him run laps.

Maria Bamford

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

Marcia Gay Harden

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

Brad Shaw

We wanted to come out skating. We did, but didn't get rewarded for it. We generated a lot of chances, but just didn't put them in the net.

Ty Conklin

We didn't give up, we didn't quit, and we were rewarded for it.

Seth Tobias

No one was being rewarded for taking risk.

John Buckingham

You ride out the downturn and you're usually rewarded in the end,

Linda Miles

It's unfortunate this happened. Why it happened, I don't know, but it did happen, and I don't think he should be rewarded for what he's done.

Scott Peters

She said that if you wanted to smoke, she could go out there and smoke with her teachers.

O. Winston

I don't smoke and don't drink. Never did.

Henry Sokolski

I think it's sort of smoke and mirrors.

Claude McDonald

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke

John Heywood

There is no fyre without some smoke.

Tom McGee

The way they are trying to play it, it's a smoke screen. It's a big charade and very twisted.

Greta Garbo

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

Hank Aaron

Can I smoke now without someone taking my picture?

Ken Dobson

The victims were kind of spread out in the house. Smoke detectors could have made the difference.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.