Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Charles Dickens

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Charles Dickens

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Alan Watts

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Alan Watts

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Alan Watts

"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

Alan Rickman

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

Chogyam Trungpa

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

David Allen

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

Byron Katie

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

Catherine Bell

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

Mike Gardner

We are pleased to receive the Project Partnership Award. As an organization we have worked creatively with regional communities to get urban forestry off the ground. It's wonderful to be formally recognized for these efforts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Bob Monkhouse

I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

Billy Joel

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

Bill Parcells

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

Alex Nogales

We're seeing the fruits of our labor. We've been pushing for this for so long.

Michael Chertoff

We're now starting to see the fruits of seeds that were harvested when we started talking about this strategy a year or so ago.

David Hawkins

I think we're starting to see the fruits of our investments,

Adrian Rogers

The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

William C. Bryant

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Rabindranath Tagore

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with out fruits with joy.

Clint Hurdle

We have worked hard this year to get better. That has started to happen and we want (the players) to reap the fruits of their hard work.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

O. Singh

One who serves the Lord obtains the fruits of his rewards, all of his hunger is satisfied. Nanak is a sacrifice to those, who night and day, meditate within their hearts on the Name of the Lord.

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Kevin Hallinan

The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Leander Paes

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Mark Ruffalo

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

Robert Walzel

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.

Brene Brown

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Jonathan Meyers

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with himself and everyone he works with.

Dick Cheney

Tom Ridge is not a candidate, because he took himself out, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, the Lord Himself is the Appraiser, who distinguishes the counterfeit from the genuine.

Charlotte Bronte

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

Ransom Antoine

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse that we normally have.

Jay Christie

We really have to chock this one up to a lapse in procedures.

Ben Gordon

We can't come out and have all these lapses. If they get two, at worst we're going into overtime. It was just a mental lapse on our part.

Alice Stewart

The first priority is to make sure the people have what they need and that there is not a lapse in their coverage.

Steve Burtt

You can't get flustered. They were right picking us as the first team in the conference. We have the pieces to the puzzle to put this thing together. We just had a lapse tonight.

Tom Hollander

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

Vijender Singh

I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

William Williams

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

George H. W. Bush

...Whatever the road that lies ahead, that road will take me home.

Fernando Rospigliosi

He can't be believed. He's a man who lies systematically.

Phil Klay

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Leo Tolstoy

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Tom Bosley

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

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

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Charles Dudley Warner

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Charles de Lint

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

Charles Dickens

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Dallas Drake

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.

Jim Hall

They refused to participate at all, even though we requested them.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Paul Farris

I refused to sign off on it as being correct.

Charles de Gaulle

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

Alan Watts

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Alan Watts

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Edith Stein

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

Edward Kennedy

Family reunification has been an essential aspect of these policies.Many of those who are brought in, in terms of families, have become actively involved. They open small stores, play a significant role in the economy. The families and the importance of family unity are extremely important.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We must all work together if we are all to live together in unity and harmony.

Bill Ayers

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

Blaise Pascal

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.