Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. Harvey

The one thing we preach is mental toughness and we showed it tonight.

Orlando Bloom

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

Roberto Torres

Where is your mental GPS taking you today? Is that where you want to go?

A man should be what he seems.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

There's daggers in men's smiles.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Eugene Kennedy

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Marilyn Miller

We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero.

Charles Bukowski

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Thomas Lynch

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

Bhagat Singh

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

Marcus Trufant

My parents live here now, but they were on their way to New Orleans for a funeral when the storm hit,

Charles Bradlaugh

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

John Ryding

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

Edward Gibbon

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Bjarne Stroustrup

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

Benny Goodman

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Penny Junor

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.