Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Jeremy Corbyn

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Carol Araullo

She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because the majority of Filipinos are women, she is abusing the rights of women.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Trey Gowdy

There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

Sathya Baba

Man falsely imagines I am doing this , I am planning this . It is the supreme, all pervasive consciousness that motivates, unfolds the skills and operates the intellect.

Roger Penrose

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

Leo Veness

From agriculture to industry, from industry to information processing, and finally from information processing to the mind or consciousness awareness.

Deepak Chopra

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

What you seek, you already are.

Jay Vavricek

I have been traveling all over the state for the past six months. I would like to elevate the consciousness of voters about the congressional race and give them an opportunity to know me.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

Robert Irwin

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

Edmund Husserl

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.