Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

David Tang

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Caitlin Thomas

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

David Baron

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Chaim Potok

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

Benjamin Franklin

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Benjamin Franklin

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Jamie Sandison

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

Thaddeus Mathis

We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

Mario Gallucci

We absolutely, vehemently deny the charges. He was not doing anything illegal or wrong when he harvested.

Edwin Louis Cole

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Eddie Jordan

We have to find ways to limit his touches. Can we deny him more times, more possessions? When we do double, can we get out of the double team and get out to the shooters?

Carolyn Porco

We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things,

Ibrahim Lipumba

We were also denied a total of 116 results forms from different polling stations in 11 rural constituencies.

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Evan Snapper

But there are occasions when separate filings make more sense. For example, when one taxpayer has lot of itemized deductions and the other taxpayer has very little income.

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

Amy Bloom

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Michael Starke

I thought we rose to the occasion and played well.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Dave Roberts

With everything he has been through this year, for Sean to rise to the occasion like that, it says a lot about his character.

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.

Francois Bozize

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

Blanka Vlasic

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Dean Cain

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Mark Rey

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

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Leonid Hurwicz

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Peter Kalikow

We're going to stay with the old rule,

Frank Tolbert

We're going to stay together and get through this.

Carl Sagan

We were wanderers from the beginning.

Dodie Smith

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...

Mike Birbiglia

I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.

Hugo Chavez

Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.

Homer

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

Josh Kornbluth

How do you think I'm doing? ... Wandering Josh.

Louis Agassiz

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

Michael Caine

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

Walker Percy

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

David Suzuki

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

Catherynne M. Valente

There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

Benjamin Graham

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

Billy Herman

Boston has two seasons: August and winter.