Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

C. J. Cherryh

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Suresh Kalmadi

The performances will give a glimpse of the rich culture and heritage of India as the next hosts of the Games.

Patrick Arnold

We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.

Gil Cates

There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

David Walton

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.

Joe Mihalich

When you run that baseline when it's a dead ball, you give a team life.

Ann Rice

When you're watching TV and they're reporting 50 people dead in Mississippi and you haven't heard from your family, well, you think the worst.

Ryan MacMurchy

When we were winning, our practices were (about) grinding each other, getting on each other, yelling and hollering. It's been a little dead out there lately, not as competitive.

John Washington

We wrapped them and all, but due to the heat, well, I don't know. We just left a lot of dead people, I figure 40 to 50.

Terry Greene

What has impressed me the most is Wildfire has been winning when things aren't going his way. He's dead rail but he's been drawing all outside boxes.

Rob Reiner

The other side talks about being the party of diversity and the party of inclusion, ... And how do they figure this? This is what I want to know, except, unless they define diversity as two guys at the head of the ticket that are from two different oil companies.

Lindsey Vonn

A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.

Leonid Hurwicz

A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.

Richard Holbrooke

In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

Richard P. Feynman

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Jacques Chirac

Lifting sanctions is a goal we have supported for a long time, ... Now it is up to the United Nations to define the modalities of the lifting of sanctions.

Tawni O'Dell

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

Umberto Eco

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Mark Durante

We knew what Kinney would need to do to win today, and he followed the plan perfectly. He scrambled well and had great movement.

Stu Jackson

We're looking at the severity of the conduct, whether a player wound up and followed through. It was a hard foul, but I did not feel it was flagrant -- and I've reviewed hundreds of these.

Richard Carmona

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.

Knut Hamsun

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Thierry Henry

I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.

Danielle Steel

My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

Denis Villeneuve

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.

Claudio Sanchez

We did what we were moved to do. We followed our guts and we just made some really heavy songs that we're having fun playing live.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Martin Gleeson

Whether this confrontation was in any way related to youth gangs is something that is still under investigation.

Charles Koppelman

We grew up watching gangster movies. We wanted to make a film that people would quote to each other like 'Diner' and 'Godfather,'

Tone Loc

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Jane Goodall

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Adrian Leppard

We hope to jog people's memories - did they see anything last week, and did the gang test their plan and the route they used in the weeks running up to the robbery?

David Conley

There are a lot of gangs now in the county. You can tell them by their clothing, and by tattoos.

Tony Sirico

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Jack Ford

I don't think it was race relations at all. It was some gang members who had real or imagined grievances and took it as an opportunity to speak in their own way over the march, in their park, their area,

Charles Spurgeon

It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Alan Watts

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

Alan Chambers

Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.

David Kim

If there's an Internet signal, people will always have access to God's Word and for that I'm profoundly grateful for the technology and people who've made this access to life-giving words possible.

David Morse

I will be always grateful to NBC.

Carl Sagan

Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

Cesc Fabregas

I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

Cary Elwes

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

Mickey Hart

There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he knew that his power was with the Grateful Dead. He didn't want to go solo. Jerry was a groupist. He loved to group.

Cecil Roberts

What's Jerry Kilgore doing? Standing on the stage with somebody who wants to take your Social Security,

Masayoshi Son

Jack, Jerry and I had been talking about the merger for a while, ... Jerry and I would like to leave the operation up to Jack. We trust his skills.

Phil Jackson

He (Lakers owner Jerry Buss) knew what he was trying to get accomplished, but still in all, it never quite seems to match up.

Drake Bell

I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

M. Thompson

We'd all like to thank Jerry for his many years of service. We can be very proud of what we've done.

Michael Cudlitz

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

Jerry Magoon

Jerry was enthusiastically voted into the permanent position by the board.

Tom Cruise

Jerry Maguire: Jump in my nightmare, the water's warm!

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Charles Spurgeon

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Brian Billick

We've got a lot of work to do, plain and simple.

Rebecca Jackson

We don't have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Robert Rankin

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

Owen Meredith

One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.

Russ Anderson

I have more flexibility, more stamina, I just plain feel better. It's a wonderful thing.

Hayley Hasselhoff

I've never worn plus size brands, and I never had to because I found what worked for my body type. So my advice is to find what works for you.

Ron Gardenhire

He did a super job. That'll be a plus for us.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Michael Vick

This time it's going to be in different weather conditions. I think that will be a plus for us.

Micky Arison

I think that was a big psychological plus for us.

Julia Mancuso

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Bob Walsh

I tell them this isn't about me, it's about you. This is your time. I keep telling them not to worry about that stuff, that if we go out and try to keep getting better every game, we'll get 600 plus some.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am I plus my circumstances.

Tim Tucker

They're used to winning. Plus they understand the tournament trail.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

William Shakespeare

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Edith Wharton

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Edith Wharton

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.