Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.

Thomas Buxton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Richard Rhodes

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

George Gurdjieff

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Tom Foreman

So many decisions of the Supreme Court have been made in the vacuum as to when life begins ... and it belies the scientific facts, the medical facts, that are out there today,

John Walsh

Men are simple minded. The fact that women can't understand them, begins to show just how complex they are...

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Della Reese

One of the things I learned from Mahalia Jackson was how to communicate with people through song, ... The communication begins inside of you, then it is brought out to the people.

Peter Fonda

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

Jim Kennedy

made a good-faith effort to respond to the questions despite the fact that they were designed more for a partisan purpose than a constitutional one.

Amity Gaige

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Mark Keller

Miss Copley, you're not going to like any of this, ... Your stay is too short. It's designed for punishment. Period.

Todd Spencer

Of course, the licensing process is designed to simply slide as many people through with a minimum of experience and quality.

Andy Weir

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

John Clifford

Needless to say, we are very pleased with these results, ... Our enhanced surveillance program is designed to provide information about the level of prevalence of B.S.E. in the United States, which by any measure is extremely low.

Theo de Raadt

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

Steve Owen

From an outsider's perspective I can understand it seems odd to open a new facility while another one is closing. But Red Rock is designed for a state contract.

Marc Faber

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.

Ali Naimi

make it more difficult to overcome these bottlenecks in the system.

Alain Resnais

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Clinton Case

(Lewinsky) doesn't sound crazy. She sounds fragile, as if she is in an extremely difficult spot.

Tim Bates

Last year, we could hit the ball. That was our strength. We had inexperienced pitchers, but what is nice is that they're back. We left them in at difficult times last year so they could learn and they have improved because of it.

Don Cooper

Let's face it, it's very, very difficult to get our work in. The disappointing thing is that it looked like we were going to get our five innings in.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

Less than 250 seats and things could get difficult for Koizumi.

Maria Garcia

Learning English is the most difficult part, and I hope I can do it because I really want to become a citizen. I?m happy for my friends and I hope I can do it, too.

Bradley Skolnik

Many of these folks are in very difficult straits. There are several investments where the investor has used their entire life savings and incurred enormous hardship as a result. It's truly heartbreaking.

Robert Kazinsky

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Warren Farrell

Men are not human beings,they are human doings

Ivonne Sanchez

Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul

Tom DeLay

medical research predicated on the destruction of human embryos.

John Kricfalusi

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Lydon

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

John Lasseter

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

Tino Sehgal

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

David Sedaris

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

there are no inanimate objects ...

Darren Criss

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

Isaac Asimov

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

William Shenstone

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Todd Rundgren

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Ellen Thorsen

I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.

Christian Cota

For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

Simon Travaglia

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Richard Eyre

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

Maya Angelou

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Christine Lagarde

We still have to obtain clarification on its interpretation,

Michael Rains

What we're saying is, who are the real cheaters? They are the ones who are using these illegally obtained materials.

Thomas Bangalter

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.

Granth Sahib

Those, within whom the Truth dwells, obtain the True Name; they speak only the Truth.

Robin Roberts

In order to obtain original period clothing, you need to go everywhere.

Granth Sahib

Tell me, without the worship, who has ever obtained the supreme status?

Guru Singh

They redeem their generations, and they themselves obtain the state of liberation.

Jerry Yang

People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.

Fred Funk

This is cool. I really do pinch myself to realize where I've come from. To obtain some of the things I have obtained out here is pretty cool.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Dennis Prager

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Elbert Hubbard

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

Eduardo Galeano

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.