Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liu Bolin

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

Evangeline Lilly

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Jeffrey Kluger

You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!

James McIntyre

The decision to declare a disaster rests solely with the president. The reasons he chooses are his and his alone.

Rose Rosetree

Nobody pushes Sonja around. And she's not just a survivor; she chooses to claim her power with real grace.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

Peter Power

We are at a loss to understand why Norway has chosen to go down this particular route.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated. I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated, ... I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

Kari Matchett

I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Kate Winslet

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

Edward Brooke

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Bill Gates

The potential for all these exciting devices, smart objects and services to enrich and enhance the way we live is truly amazing.

William Winkenwerder

We are prepared to provide a significantly enhanced effort, a major effort, if needed,

Nicolas Roeg

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

Raymond Moore

We have assembled one of the most powerful strategic tennis partnerships possible, and this will ensure that the event stays here for many years to come. We look forward to working with them to improve and enhance this already terrific tournament.

Bill DeWitt

We felt it was an investment in the franchise, and it would enhance not only 1997 but also future years.

David Adelman

On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Since the period of the threat now seems to be passing, I think over the immediate future we'll slowly be winding down the enhanced security,

Eric Knight

Miles of roads are also being enhanced to support the operations of the new space launch facility.

Carl Icahn

We're happy that value for all shareholders is enhanced through this offer.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Camilla Belle

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

Mark Young

The power line was burning, but they got over to it and got it put out.

Kevin Hamilton

The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Keith Primeau

We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Rick Pitino

We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home,

Seamus Mallon

We are getting near to the stage where hardball will be played.

Richard Peddie

We're getting near the end of the process, but obviously it is not over yet,

James Williams

Yes, he was standing near the trash can.

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Mike Irwin

Sheldon Park is a little too popular with the geese. KES isn't near water so we don't have the same problem and it seems to work out better for everyone.

George Hecht

We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.

Alan Paton

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Alan Woods

With nowhere to smoke in the pub or the office, smokers are nipping outside for a cigarette.

Neil Marshall

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

Shonda Schilling

When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn't just want to make a donation.

Norman Foster

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

Jack Falahee

If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

Albert Reynolds

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

David Gest

Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she's violent. And I was stunned.

Marilyn Rush

We have to be out Friday. But we have nowhere to go.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Susan Hill

We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Byron Katie

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

Camille Paglia

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

Eliza Haywood

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Bernard Kouchner

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

Agnetha Faltskog

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Charles M. Schulz

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

Baltasar Gracian

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Alexandre Dumas

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Bob Dylan

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.