Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Bernie Mac

Fear is not one of my attributes.

Marcia Muller

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

Charles M. Schwab

What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.

Henry David Thoreau

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Ken Kercheval

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.

Tord Grip

When I came back I told Sven he was a player to watch out for. He's special. His touch is excellent and he can beat people with pace and technique. He has the attributes necessary in today's football. We wanted to see him in a first team and he's done very well for Southampton. The next thing is to see him in the Premiership. He's perhaps even ready to play in the under-21s.

Whit Andrews

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Charlie Chaplin

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Charlie Chaplin

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

Charles Sumner

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

Charles de Gaulle

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

Charles de Gaulle

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Charles de Gaulle

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Charles de Lint

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

Charles de Lint

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Charles Dickens

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

Charles Spurgeon

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

Dmitri Mendeleev

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Cherry Loney

The people who need to know have been contacted. We did an investigation. It has been determined some people needed to be notified. We identified who they are.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

George Eliot

There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life

Maurizio Giuliano

Whether this looming humanitarian disaster will be averted, will ultimately be determined in major world capitals.

Hosni Mubarak

We remain most willing and determined to do all we can,

Michael Redd

We were determined to start off well. Loved it. We need that every night.

Shawn Rojeski

We were determined to get ourselves up, to play well for a medal.

Paul O'Neill

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,

Casey Luskin

Students will learn more about evolution, not less as some Darwinists have falsely claimed.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Spurgeon

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Al Roker

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Chris Metzger

We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.

Chris Cagle

She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Nicholas Burns

We are (also) disappointed that Radovan Karadzic is still at large and not in the Hague,

Bible Bible

Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

Marilyn Praisner

We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Charlie Chaplin

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.

Charlie Chaplin

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Charlie Chaplin

Greed has poisoned men's souls

Charlie Chaplin

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Charlie Chaplin

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.

Charlie Chaplin

The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

Charles Wagner

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Charles Dickens

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Charles Spurgeon

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Chris Bosh

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

Ariana Grande

Never take yourself too seriously.

Arthur Helps

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Daniel Quinn

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Arundhati Roy

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

Maina Kiai

Unfortunately this has come after a lot of public pressure. It's a pity it's taken too long to happen.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Walter Mare

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.

E. Hicks

We've (shot) very poor percentages and come out with a win. We just need to play harder. We lacked physical, tough play for 40 minutes.

Jeff Mathews

We presume there is going to be (a meeting).

Jaime Suchlicki

I presume that it's going to come in.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Brian Dixon

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Daron Rahlves

I was just trying to concentrate on the simple things: Putting down some smooth skiing, which I didn't do yesterday, and having fun.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Bob Hope

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Deepak Chopra

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Abraham Lincoln

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Ally Carter

Ooh, the silent treatment.

Abraham Kuyper

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Martin Freeman

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

Charles de Gaulle

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Lint

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Charles Spurgeon

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Alan Watts

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Al Madrigal

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

Quentin Richardson

Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Craig Barlow

That was even worse than being in the right bunker.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Chuck Hill

I would have expected, even without FD, to see more preannouncements this quarter. Things are worse out there.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Andy Roddick

I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match.

Katharine Cornell

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.