Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

C. S. Lewis

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

Agnes Smedley

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

Agnes Martin

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

Stephen Colletti

My costar James Lafferty, and his little brother Stuart Lafferty, and another buddy of ours, Ian Shive, are working on this project called 'Generation Wild.' It's about getting people to realize that being outdoors is not scary - you can go on adventures like we do, in national parks, and practically in your own backyard.

Richard G. Scott

Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Don Bluth

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.

David Sarnoff

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

Buck Showalter

We want him to keep pitching well, maybe work on his breaking ball. It just doesn't fit for us right now, but it will again.

Thom Mayne

There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally.

Azim Premji

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

Elliott Abrams

Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.

David Johnson

We are poised for breaking away from our competitors in the food industry, ... This strategic growth plan is designed to vault our company into the ranks of the world's renowned consumer goods companies, in terms of financial profile and market multiple.

Mike Johnson

We started pressuring them and they started throwing turnovers. We were just fast breaking and started coming back and gaining some confidence.

Jack Reed

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

Henry Samueli

Older generations of Wi-Fi weren't quite robust enough to deliver video in the home without breaking up and losing packets and so forth. 5G Wi-Fi gives you extended reach, extended data rates, and more robust coverage.

Paul Scanlan

We live in a society today where live breaking news is a common occurrence and people want to know what's going on right now.

Matt Prokop

When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Lauren London

I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing.

Britney Spears

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

Ashton Irwin

I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.

Ashley Greene

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

Kiesza

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.

Nicholas Haslam

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

Bill Coleman

When we were dating it was in a Model A. And we've owned one ever since.

Chelsea Handler

When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?

Jonathan Klein

The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.

Luke Nosek

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

Nell Hudson

I went on the 'Outlander' Facebook page - this is when I kind of first got a sense of what people thought about Laoghaire, because I went on the 'Outlander' Facebook page and found this picture of myself, and there were all these comments, and a lot of them were great.

Reid Hoffman

MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.

James Avery

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

Jason Calacanis

I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

Jesse Eisenberg

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

Conor McGregor

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference.

Peter Thiel

Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Myles Brand

We have resolved all differences. We found a way to go forward. This is a significant agreement.

Bill Taylor

The process has been reviewed, and it's been found to be safe.

Kyle Waters

We used to send out material before school started but we've found that just being visible gets the word out.

Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tim Tebow

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Bible Bible

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Charlotte Bronte

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Charlie Daniels

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

David Almond

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

Jerry Johnson

We are privately owned and we do not routinely give out information about our customers. I imagine if we do either, we sell (grain).

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Bea Arthur

I can't imagine working without and audience.

Brian Tracy

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

Brendan Fehr

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

Brendan Behan

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

J. J. Johnson

We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.

Timothy Ghriskey

We're seeing a pullback really just from yesterday.

Chris Shipley

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Jared Diamond

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Theophilus London

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

Franz Wright

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

Alan K. Simpson

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Charlie Daniels

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Rob Sheffield

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Ricky Gervais

When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Bruce Vento

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.