Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

Emile Cioran

Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.

John Milton

And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.

Armando Navarro

I think that this is a contagion that can't be stopped. It is growing by leaps and bounds.

Spencer Wells

Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.

Chuck Palahniuk

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Alan Greenspan

While the adjustments may be difficult for a time, these crises will pass. Stronger individual economies and a more robust and efficient international economic and financial system will surely emerge in their wake,

Ben Bernanke

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

Terri Blackstock

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Jim Yong Kim

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

Sidney Blumenthal

Like oil crises in the past, it strikes at American feelings of independence, mobility, freedom and exceptionalism.

Rolf Breuer

financial crises in the emerging markets, especially in Russia.

Adam Sandler

I grew up cursing a lot.

Iman Iman

Our grandparents' home had racial slander and cursing on the garage door, and on the vehicle.

Bible Bible

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Rusty Anderson

It was really fun, ... (Paul) was very endearing when he would make a mistake when I was teaching him the song and stuff and he was cursing himself. It was really, really cool. Very surreal. Just fun. He's so musical, it was a really great experience. It was just fun doing it together.

Robbie Robertson

They think just because there's teenagers here, they're always cursing and swearing,

Dusty Baker

It's a great sight to see on this side. We saw it on the other side all the time. We're just glad he's on our side instead of cursing him on the other side.

Granth Sahib

Lord and Master is lofty and exalted, grand and infinite

Charles Buckley

M y great grandma is a saintly sweet lady, but at the same time, she's grounded, strong and very spiritual.

Gia Coppola

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

Karen Carter

My grandma made it when she was old,

Shamir

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.

Kim Clijsters

Maybe it wasn't my time yet in those Grand Slams. Everything happens for a reason.

Chris Wallace

Now when you say you have cooperated with the prosecutor, does that mean, in fact, that you spoke to investigators or to the grand jury?

Evan Lysacek

Obviously, this year there are some expectations on me to perform, but this is only my third Grand Prix of my life.

Eddie Vedder

I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.

Don Smith

Sterling still suffers from an association with the dollar.

Michel de Montaigne

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

George Meredith

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Steve Sanger

If there is an impact, it is not yet visible to us,

Thomas Merton

There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.