Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

B. B. King

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

B. F. Skinner

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

C. S. Lewis

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

Paul Hartman

I am just as guilty as you, ... I didn't do that (which I had promised).

Nick Barnes

I feel guilty because I can't go down there and do anything else.

Darryl Littlejohn

I can't really say I had anything to do with it at all. I was in the apartment. The only thing I pleaded guilty to was being in the wrong place and having a beeper.

S. Walker

Basically, he's told me he had no involvement in this murder, so we intend to plead not guilty and we intend to go to trial.

Simon Armitage

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

Bible Bible

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Wendy Harris

When they read the first part (of the verdict), I just bawled. I was so happy. The guilty verdict means so much to me.

Carl Jung

Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.

Walter Todd

He was factually guilty of intentional homicide, but from the beginning, he's had remorse.

Aubrey O'Day

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Gilbert Hernandez

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

Ali MacGraw

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Mary Ellen Mark

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

Debbie Allen

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

Debbie Macomber

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Allen Ginsberg

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Jeff Goldblum

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

Jeff Goldblum

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.