Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Stanley

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Chad Hurley

People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?

Walter Martin

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

Greg Kampe

We play very fast and like to press. And we need a point guard that can distribute and score.

Jeremy Allaire

It is now possible to distribute high quality programming that has been produced by much smaller entities.

Mike Lowry

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

Francis Bacon

Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and love contentedly

Muhtar Kent

The model of Coca-Cola is local, whether it's investing, partnering, sourcing, producing, or selling. We market and distribute locally; we pay taxes locally. And it works.

David Black

We don't use schools to distribute politically endorsed information.

Phil Taylor

Their abilities to stage, warehouse and distribute donated goods is severely stressed at present,

Charles Simmons

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Dave Barry

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Catherine Bertini

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

Bryan Q. Miller

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

Kathleen Blanco

The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.

Niger Innis

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

Kurt Vonnegut

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

David Hume

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

David Richard

I worry about the stigma -- especially in rural areas.

Erin Matson

In rural areas, this can be very serious.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Angelo Reyes

We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

David Ramsey

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Hans Vestberg

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

Lee Smith

Without these trucks here, I don't think we would have made it.

George Ross

You're going to have a lot of trucks until they're done.

Robert Rogers

I just went over to where all those trucks were parked to see if they were hiring, and they were,