Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Landon Donovan

I looked up and (Glen) was kind of fading away. So I just tried to put it in a good spot and he finished it. I don't know if he meant to, but he finished it.

Donald Yacktman

Now that the worst lawsuits are fading it seems a golden opportunity to do that. Kraft is limping.

Anna Seward

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

William Shakespeare

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

Sophia Young

My shot wasn't falling. I was just fading away too much.

Michael Hensley

Your lives are fading in the shadows of time, but your legacy lives on,

Bruce Fuller

The fading out isn't good news for the pro-universal preschool side.

Dean Cain

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Denis Leary

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

Chadwick Boseman

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,

Brian Tracy

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

Twiggy

My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.

Edward Abbey

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

Jim Carrey

Second year in a row -- what's going on here, man? ... I'm the establishment I once rejected. ... I'm the Tom Hanks of the Golden Globes.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Chris Castro

This strategy makes a lot of sense for us. There's a golden opportunity for us in DVD.

Paul Robertson

All the lawsuits have not been resolved, ... but it looks very positive.

Lloyd Chapman

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Sean Egan

There may be more lawsuits and a fine, but I think they will be manageable,

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Charles Spurgeon

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

Charles Spurgeon

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Chris Brown

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

Bryan Stevenson

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

Aida Turturro

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

Diana Gabaldon

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

Ed Koch

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

Bob Marley

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy

Demi Lovato

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.