Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Dickens

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Charles Dickens

In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

Charles Stanley

I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

Charles Spurgeon

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Charles Spurgeon

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Alan Watts

Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Naohiro Niimura

Traders are not in hurry to buy, as we seem to have sufficient supplies plus mild weather.

Aaron Mattox

We played well for three quarters and just got in a hurry there in the fourth. We made some mistakes but regrouped down the stretch.

Sally Schneider

There are a wealth of flavorings you can put in a salt, and if you're in a hurry that's your seasoning. That's all you have to do.

Rafael Benitez

I am in no hurry to sell the player,

Roxanne Rogers

We urge people interested in this raffle to hurry and purchase their tickets.

Dallas Willard

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Joel Zumaya

I got up (to throw) and they told me to start hurrying up. It's kind of weird, but, hey, I got warmed up real quick. It's just all about being relaxed and doing your work out there.

Paul Little

We're not in a hurry to do anything. We're going to pretty much leave it as is for now.

Paul Petty

We're not in a big hurry right now.

Chinua Achebe

When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed.

Gitte Lindgaard

Unless the first impression is favorable, visitors will be out of your site before they even know that you might be offering more than your competitors.

Kim Fields

Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!

Vaclav Klaus

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

Sam Schmidt

Mr. el Hage didn't leave an impression when it took a year to talk about him to the government.

George H. W. Bush

My impression of New Orleans is this: That there is a recovery on the way,

Doug Blundy

My first impression was that it was really cold.

J. J. Johnson

My first impression is they really didn't listen to Maine people.

Gerhard Schroeder

I even have the impression that we will be positively surprised.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Paul McNulty

Ms. Lewinsky's testimony has never been more important than it is now,

Cam Newton

I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.

Michael Ramsey

The value of the testimony of such witnesses is about zero.

Christopher Low

It's the same tone that he took in his testimony two weeks ago.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.