Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Al Lopez

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Lara Trifiletti

Tipping the Scales. Neither is a suitable option.

Robert Anthony

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Bennie Thompson

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Emma Watson

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Caitlin Moran

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Aidan Quinn

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Chris Christie

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.

Dave Foley

If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.

Bill Kurtis

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

Dawn Powell

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

Carol Moseley Braun

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Chester Himes

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Demetri Martin

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.

Clark Gable

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Terry Zwigoff

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

Edouard Manet

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Don Bluth

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Albert Pike

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

Dale Carnegie

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

Ann Powers

He was wailing and snot was just pouring out of his nose.

Chris Souder

When it rains it pours, and its pouring here right now.

John Denham

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Charles Lamb

Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.

Wayne Coyne

I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Guth

It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Al Jardine

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Chris Coleman

We can't feel safe because we are not safe. (on Fulham, 2004-5 season)

Chris Christie

We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Cathy Guisewite

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

Ed Koch

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

Cass McCombs

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

Cat Deeley

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

Carre Otis

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.

Chanel Iman

I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.