Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

Charles Spurgeon

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Alan Alda

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Chris Christie

I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

Camille Paglia

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

Vince Carter

We still think we're a good team. We didn't get blown out of here (in Cleveland), for one. We're capable. We just have to step it up a little bit.

William Shakespeare

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

William Shakespeare

I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Edward Hirsch

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Michael Porter

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

Anton Chekhov

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

David Cameron

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

Amar Bose

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Eric Ries

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Gene Simmons

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Kyle Chandler

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.