Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Monk Kidd

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

KaDee Strickland

Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.

Melissa Caldwell

Until a couple years ago, the FCC was sort of asleep at the wheel when it comes to indecency enforcement, ... We helped jump-start the FCC and get them to look at this issue seriously.

Neneh Cherry

I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.

Nathan Kirsh

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

Dennis Goldford

What this does, at the very least, is raise the question of competence. Did someone fall asleep at the switch?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She and her husband fell asleep with hands tenderly clasped, and awoke, from visions of unearthly radiance, to meet the more blessed light of one another's eyes.

Ralph Nader

Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary.

Joe Donzelli

She may have fallen asleep on the bus. When she woke up, she made herself known to someone there.

Elliott Abrams

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Martin Freeman

There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.

Eckhart Tolle

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Eckhart Tolle

Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

Max Heindel

It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.

Deepak Chopra

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Deepak Chopra

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

Robert Bruno

Workers don't want to give up what they've earned in terms of health-care coverage. It's sort of the deepest wound you can cut.

Emma Goldman

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Laura Taylor

We're really excited about this season. I think it's the deepest we've ever been. There are just so many good young players on this team.

Sylvia Rhone

Nobody can illuminate our greatest hopes, soothe our deepest fears, and put us on the musical high road like Stevie Wonder.

Paul Martin

I extend my deepest condolences to the victims and the families.

Tom Graham

I'd like to think it will move into a dynasty. Hopefully, it all turns out. This is going to be so fun. I'm not going to say we're going to win every game. But these kids can rake the ball. And it's the deepest pitching staff I've had. I don't know if we're there yet, but we're close.

Daniel Akaka

I am deeply saddened by this event. I am stunned that so many lives were lost in a single incident, ... My heartfelt thoughts, prayers, and deepest sympathies go to the families of each Marine.

Bertrand Piccard

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

Robert P. McCulloch

First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in the past, I know that, regardless of the circumstances here, they lost a loved one to violence. I know the pain that accompanies such a loss knows no bounds.

Wolfgang Bernhard

The product palette of Volkswagen hasn't had a family friendly van which speaks to the specific desires of our American customers. With this new vehicle, we will quickly tap into another large market segment with our own product.

Kim Jee-woon

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.

Layne Staley

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Cyril Tourneur

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are a thousand miles about

O. Singh

Meditate on the Lord, twenty four hours a day, the fruits of the heart s desires are obtained.

George Meredith

Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

Granth Sahib

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Plato

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Francis Bacon

Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

Carre Otis

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

Carol Leifer

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.

Carlos Castaneda

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

C. S. Lewis

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.

C. S. Lewis

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

C. S. Lewis

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

David Parrish

We want to rebuild a strong neighborhood that's got potential. If we picked a spot that had 73 parcels and 50 homes and 40 were just falling apart, that would be a total redevelopment.

Agnes Repplier

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

Lawrence Korb

The real issue here is that you have a policy that is costing us money, hurting readiness and is really not fulfilling any national security objective.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We are going to look into a way that we can help Mexico and at the same time fulfill our own goals,

Daniel Gillies

If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.

Deepak Chopra

We all want to experience more happiness, fulfillment, and peace.

Marc Faber

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.

Kevin Adams

Musically and creatively, it's more fulfilling than any thing I've ever done, ... Live From Studio B.

Dana Rohrabacher

Frankly, had Medawar not had this meltdown and not been able to fulfill his obligations on his Homeland Security project, there would have been no question about this at all.

Abdullah A. Badawi

fulfill the obligations of this position honestly and with all my energy.

Damian Woetzel

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

Jane Austen

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Aleksandar Hemon

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Daniel Kahneman

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

George Herbert

Better never begin than never make an end.

Kingsley Amis

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Tequan Richmond

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

I. Stone

We're here to stay and see this thing through.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Demi Lovato

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

David Koechner

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

Tom Libby

If they were to switch back to incentives, frankly, it would undermine everything they've done.

Mohamed ElBaradei

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

Chris Liddell

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well.

Ozzie Guillen

I switched my mind, ... It worked for us.

Kelsey Chow

I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!

Steve Squyres

It is a big step. We've really switched gears.

Jeff Hickok

When that flipped, that was a nine-point switch in our favor.

Stan Heath

They switched some things, and we didn't read the switches very well. We just made an inadvertent pass.

Charles Spurgeon

The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Brandon Sanderson

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

Brendan Fraser

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

Beth Moore

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

Elizabeth Taylor

There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

Kevin Keegan

They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England.

Bob Enos

Mike's been in a wheelchair for 30 years, and had seizures for 35.

Elbert Hubbard

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

Edna Ferber

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.