Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gretchen Rubin

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

Edith Stein

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Ed Belfour

I'm definitely one of the best. Always have been; always will be. I won't accept anything less.

David Tudor

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

Audre Lorde

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

John Riley

We believe that Danaher's proposal is an attempt to coerce Cooper shareholders into accepting an opportunistic bid to acquire Cooper at a low price,

Riley Wallace

What he's done, accepting his role that way, has been a big part of this team.

Nelson Fields

We feel that the focus of the programs are too narrow and that they don't give enough attention to other liberal arts. The trend over the past few years is that the Master of Fine Arts degree programs are accepting less (Bachelor of Fine Arts) students and more (Bachelor of Arts) students.

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.

Kelly Macdonald

Timewise, everyone knocked at least 30 seconds off their time (from last year on the course). Our top three (LeBreck, Campbell and Hoklas) have been interchangeable.

Larry Wall

Mr. Campbell paints a very rosy picture. It sounds too good to be true because it is too good to be true.

Jeb Bush

I'm also pleased that a man of the legal skills of Sen. Campbell (says) that I have executive powers that we're still studying to figure out if we have. That helps me determine whether or not we could move forward on our own,

Matt Link

I can't fault my defense for that. Campbell just scored on shear strength, size and determination.

Marilyn Brewer

John Campbell refuses to stand in front of the very people whose vote he wants,

Sven Eriksson

I talked to Sol Campbell and he wants to be at the World Cup, that's for sure.

Bobby April

The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped Mark Campbell to cause the pileup, which is illegal. If he didn't do that, then the kid made a great play.

Tom Owens

God took her out of the misery. David Campbell exposed it for what it was.

Curtis Higgins

We sure do hope to see Fort Campbell again. I just mentioned that to my kids -- if they're No. 1, we're No. 1-and-a-half, and we hope to see them again. It will mean more next time.

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

Mariano Rivera

Tomorrow? We have to go there and do it, ... Don't worry, I'll be ready for tomorrow.

Cliff Lusk

We're sitting there on go, ready to respond if we have to.

Larry Southard

We're sitting on a ticking time bomb. This town is ready to ignite.

Lord Byron

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

Billy Connolly

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I.

Darrell Armstrong

It's not all going to be roses all the time. Right now, we're going through a little something. I've never seen a team that didn't go through something. Some teams find a way to get out of it. Some teams don't. Now it's time for us to get out of it.

Vince Young

How sweet this is. The roses smell so pretty. Oh, so pretty.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Alan Bennett

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Chris Colfer

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Caitlin Flanagan

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

Buddy Guy

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

Cary Grant

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

Benjamin Percy

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

Edward Gibbon

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

David Reuben

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.