Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol P. Christ

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

Carlos Mencia

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Carlos Castaneda

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

C. S. Lewis

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Che Guevara

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

Charles Fort

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

Mike Rowe

There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

Matthew Engel

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

Michael Symon

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

Joseph Mitchell

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Marcel Proust

But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.

Ellen Hopkins

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

Dick Morris

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

E. O. Wilson

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

Newt Gingrich

Donald Trump's not a sexual predator.

Mallory Ortberg

Someone who responds to "Please don't grope me" with whining and pouting isn't a friend. He's an asshole and a predator.

Robert D. Hare

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Joan Collins

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

Tom Holt

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted