Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.

Aditi Shankardass

When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands.

Ricky Gervais

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

Brandi Carlile

Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.

David Lange

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

David Taras

If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.

Jane Austen

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Jane Austen

Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

Jasmine Guinness

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Carole Bouquet

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

Carol Leifer

Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location.

Carol Vorderman

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me.

Carlos Fuentes

There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

Carlos Castaneda

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

Carlos Castaneda

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Carlos Castaneda

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

Carlos Castaneda

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Carlos Castaneda

That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self

Diane Ackerman

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Alice Walker

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Cole Porter

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

Alfred Hitchcock

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Jim Butcher

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

Honore de Balzac

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

Francis Chan

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.