Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

Carol Moseley Braun

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

Carlos Fuentes

You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.

Carl Bernstein

What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

C. S. Lewis

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

C. S. Lewis

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

C. S. Lewis

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

C. S. Lewis

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

David Mamet

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Curtis Jackson

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves,

Cassandra Clare

I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.

Margaret Atwood

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

John Steinbeck

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

Max Frisch

My greatest fear: repetition.

Miranda Hart

My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta.

Marianne Williamson

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

Chip Kidd

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Boris Pasternak

We must discover security within ourselves.

David Hume

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

William Shakespeare

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

Daniel Kahneman

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Dag Hammarskjold

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

Claude M. Bristol

We usually get what we anticipate.

Angela Carter

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.