Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Towle

I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?' He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'You have to ask for it.' I gave him absolution and said, 'Now go to the court and tell them everything that you've told me.' And that is exactly what he did. He made a public declaration of everything he said to me,

Hugh Laurie

I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond his normal tetchiness, there were no more than a half-dozen moments of actual condemnation from him. He understood lies and also why you lied, and there was an absolution there that is very, very appealing.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

Sean Whitcomb

We have no idea where the shooting took place. We couldn't find the actual crime scene.

Fred Schmidt

We want rate stability like everybody else. Rates set at actual cost are the best way to price electricity.

Emmylou Harris

The crazy thing is that, if you add up the actual recording time, it was less than two weeks. But Mark was so busy that I got the tracks he mixed two at a time over a period of years. It was frustrating, because I had rough mixes of all these great songs, and he'd be like: 'Don't play them to a soul until they're finished!' I was a good girl scout, though.

Steve Owens

We use the funding estimates as a place holder because we do not know what the actual cost will be until we begin building. It's not until you actually bid the project that you'll have an idea of what it's going to be and even then you many have to adjust it again.

Dan Bennett

The process of developing this benchmark ensures that it is a realistic testing tool for users, the ISV and hardware vendors. The automotive industry generously donated an actual design model, UGS contributed the testing framework based on characteristic use of NX 3, and we integrated it with the proven SPEC methodology that helps ensure consistent results.

Tom Noonan

I've done a lot of action movies, and there has to be a certain amount of emotion in the actual performing of the stunt. It doesn't have to be any particular emotion, but there has to be some life to it, and that's not so easy.

Octavia E. Butler

Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?

Terence Young

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.

Eric Hill

I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.

Brendan Haywood

We have regressed. You can't really argue with that. Our team defense is Swiss cheese right now. Any time you are giving up the points we've given up over the last seven games, you can't say anything but negative things about our defense. I can't think of anything positive.

Eugene Fama

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

Jon Davidson

The point is that the history of marriage is a history of constant change. I think it's hard to argue that this change is somehow fundamentally different from the others.

Herbert A. Simon

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

Ken Livingstone

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

Sung Sohn

We're looking for the wording of the Fed's statement to change in an encouraging direction. The economic numbers would argue for more optimism than caution at this point, ... My expectation is that this economy will be sizzling in the third quarter and hopefully in the fourth quarter, and that should lead to more jobs.

Dick Grove

When I got the call about the accident, I thought it was a joke, ... I argued with the paramedic who called. These things don't happen at 9:20 in the morning.

Alan Yamamoto

We've argued about it. ... We've gone around in circles,

Luis Suarez

When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.

Patrick Hamon

We have seen a continued drop beyond Paris, but persistence near the capital. We cannot yet claim victory.

Dave Wiggins

We want our clients to feel pampered beyond expectations.

Jesse Reynolds

The expectations have started to be lowered, but I think expectations were raised beyond justification.

Michael Stanley

The fact is that Tom Campbell is like you and me. He is not a career politician like Tom DeLay. He is a citizen politician. Tom Campbell calls on Tom DeLay to get beyond the negative, immaterial distractions and get back to the real issues that are important to the people of the district.

Timothy Ghriskey

The CPI number this morning sparked a rally in both stock and bond markets. But beyond the initial reaction, I think we're going to remain stuck in this range until other issues get resolved.

Timothy Ghriskey

The CPI number this morning sparked a rally in both stock and bond markets, ... But beyond the initial reaction, I think we're going to remain stuck in this range until other issues get resolved.

A. S. Byatt

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

Travie McCoy

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel that first-and-foremost I came up as a rapper before I started singing. All a lot of people know from me is 'Cupid's Chokehold,' and they don't scratch the surface and see beyond that dude who sings the song about his girlfriend.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Enya

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Erin McKean

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Don Ward

We are all truly directing. We all feel deeply part of it and are making a great collaborative effort. Each one of us respects the other's place.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Walter Isaacson

Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.

Zac Taylor

We have to get back to a Big 12 championship. I don't think there's any doubt in our minds that we can win the North.

Steve Bell

We have no doubts that he's hiding somewhere in Cannington or nearby,

Charlotte Bronte

To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Charles Spurgeon

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

Robin Pingeton

We have put a ton of pressure on Kristi, but there was no doubt she can handle it. We knew she was a franchise player when we recruited her and she is showing that.

Marshall Hamilton

We've seen evidence that they've sealed themselves off. We have no reason to doubt they are anything but safe.

Owen McClain

The fact that I loved such an unconstant, self-centered, socio-path for ten years makes me really doubt my abilities to surround myself with good people.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Jacky Teplitzky

There is a standstill situation. We all thought September was going to be a strong month, but that did not happen. The phones did not ring. Turnout at the open houses was low, lower than we had expected.

Ricky Gervais

My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Brent Musburger

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Bret Harte

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Bram Stoker

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

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.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Thomas Moore

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

John T. Flynn

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Adlai E. Stevenson

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Martha Beck

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Jane Austen

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Jane Austen

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Chris Brown

You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime

Eckhart Tolle

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Eckhart Tolle

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

David Brooks

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

Charles Eastman

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Jason Beghe

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Charlaine Harris

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Ben Shapiro

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Brian Aldiss

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Carl Jung

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Peter Rose

We've seen no disruptions. We are anticipating a normal work day.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Evangeline Lilly

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Dita Von Teese

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.