Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Roger B. Taney

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.

Don Wallace

We are lucky to have two strong lawmakers like Simpson and Peterson looking out for America's sugar producers and the policy on which they depend. Some sugar policy opponents want to put sugar farmers out of business, and it's comforting to know that our elected representatives will not let that happen.

Nayvadius Cash

I'm always most comfortable in the studio. It's my comfort zone. I love being there, and I love making records.

Gretchen Rubin

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

Bo Burnham

When life gets you down, make a comforter!

Edward Gibbon

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Edward Livingston

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

Washington Post

The Pointer Sisters have always faced a crisis in their identity. They have dabbled in so many musical streams that, while everybody likes them, nobody knows exactly what to do with them.

Jamie Ross

We're in a severe housing crisis, and there's no reason for it. We've got the resources, we just need to appropriate them.

Jackie Robinson

We're in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have moved only one step forward, how could we retreat? To solve this crisis, the prime minister must resign.

Doug Armstrong

When he first went down, it didn't look good. So a crisis averted, I guess.

R. Robinson

We're getting to a crisis point. Facilities will start falling apart.

Jane Farmer

We're going to stabilize the crisis here, and from here, we're going to work with her on what she needs to do.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to get through this crisis we have now.

Terry Ebbert

We're going to face a crisis in the very near term.

Alan Autry

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Carlos Santana

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Jonathan Steinmetz

We are pleased to see results improve, but our enthusiasm is tempered by several factors.

David Hockney

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

David Hume

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Alan Sugar

If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.

Jarod Ingersoll

When we come to play with enthusiasm, and we're all together, we're a pretty good team.

Greg Mauch

We better learn how to play with some enthusiasm and some passion and not just wait for teams to disappear. If we don't learn that, we're not going to win anything. We've been struggling with that all year long. I guarantee you if this isn't (a wakeup call, practice on), Monday will be.

Lucy Lawless

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Alfonse D'Amato

The potholes represent the hopes and aspirations of our people, and the little people have needs, ... I fight with the bureaucrats every day, because they have to be told they are not the people who run the government, and they exist for the people.

Nina Jacobson

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Richard Boucher

We're not going to provide any quid pro quos for North Korea to live up to its existing obligations.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Dr. Dicpinigaitis

We're just saying that those studies don't exist that these products work.

Kari Matchett

If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.

Cameron Bennerman

We started hitting (the 3s) for one thing. If they go in, they count. They add.

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

Eddie Mathews

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Charlaine Harris

What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.

Lora Staveness

When we did get looks we weren't knocking them down, and they were hitting their shots and locating their shooters.

Nick Reid

Unless it's hitting somebody when they're not looking.

Ryan Doumit

Unfortunately, it's taken us until the ninth inning to get back into every game. Timely hitting has to come sooner than the ninth.

Alan Trammel

We're just not hitting right now. It isn't that we aren't trying.

Spencer Roecker

We knew they were very athletic, but they weren't hitting their jump shots in the first half.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Alan Watts

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Beverley Mitchell

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Alanis Morissette

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

Alan Watts

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Alan Watts

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Alan Watts

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

Alan Watts

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.

Chris Colfer

Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly,

Lisa Graff

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Jane Fonda

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Trey Aby

We'll still play some of the older teams. But with what we did this year, some things are going to change.

Corey Clark

Older women have always been attracted to me.

Ken Young

I was a little angry. We didn't talk for a while. But I'm older now. I realized that I was too sensitive.

David Ginola

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

Yvonne Williams

When I was a child, I'd go down to see the water after a storm, just to see it settling down, for reassurance,

Kara Cook

We're just now settling down. It's a lot of fun.

Elizabeth I

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for.

Confucius

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Cindy Gallop

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

John Calipari

We were just settling for two many 3s.

Stephen Kinzer

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.