Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Brees

We've used the word Superman without the cape. We've used a lot of terms to describe LT. I just think he never ceases to amaze.

Edmund Burke

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Ashwin Sanghi

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.

Irish Sayings

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray

Edmund Burke

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue

George Iles

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Stephen Harper

I'd anticipated the Liberals would want to delay the election at least until the spring, if not longer, ... But look, if there's a necessity to have a fall election and the NDP ceases to prop up the government, that could still happen.

Orison Swett Marden

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

A. E. Housman

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Chris Abani

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Edith Wharton

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Antony Gormley

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Antony Gormley

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

Antony Sher

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Desiderius Erasmus

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Dean Koontz

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Brene Brown

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

Nell Newman

What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.

Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Schalk Bornman

She was discovered by a staff member at the hotel. There is no evidence of a struggle or forced entry.

Teilhard Chardin

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

Charles Sumner

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Charles Caleb Colton

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Charles Caleb Colton

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

Charles Caleb Colton

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

Charles Caleb Colton

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.

Charles Spurgeon

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

Charlie Chaplin

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

Charles Dickens

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

David Graham

He wasn't in World War II and neither was his speech writer.

Louis Hinnant

He had some things to say because we weren't playing up to our potential. This meeting, he was really animated. Me and Craig, we've been here the longest. Neither one of us has seen him like that.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

John James Ingalls

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Dave Rowell

Our pitching was not up to par and neither was our defense. It was one thing after another. We were bad, plain and simple.

Mike Albring

He's been practicing, running some drills and progressing, but he's not 100 percent and I'm not willing to risk it. Neither is his family.

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Charles de Gaulle

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Charles de Gaulle

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Charles Dickens

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Charles Dickens

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

Charles Dickens

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Caleb Colton

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Addison Timlin

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.

Maggie Q

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Kat Clark

If they're in a destructive mood, we'll remove the mat, too.

Ginni Rometty

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Li Deshui

Through the survey, we are able to remove the 'water' from the statistics of the manufacturing sector, in particular, from small-sized enterprises.

Terry Greene

The scare is if they remove the steroids, it can return.

Jack Kerouac

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

Joan Lunden

Remove failure as an option.

Robert Mugabe

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

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

Arthur Helps

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

Tom Nolan

Winner never understood how that was a factor. It was always very alarming.

Jessica Sanchez

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

Carl Jung

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

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.