Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Charles Stross

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Charles Spurgeon

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Alan Watts

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Al Oerter

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Al Roker

I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.

Chiang Kai-shek

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

David Kay

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Dave Barry

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'

Buddy Valastro

You can't arrest me. I'm the Cake Boss,

Beverly Cleary

All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

Eddie Izzard

Cake and tea or death?

Denise Van Outen

I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake.

Charles M. Schulz

Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code...

Sung Sohn

We've been able to have our cake and eat it too -- satisfy our demand for goods and services and at lower prices,

Jimmy Jackson

What we're seeing here is a cake walk compared to what people on I-45 are experiencing, ... There are people who have been on the road idling so long they ran out of gas.

Fadel Gheit

Unless (energy) prices collapse, earnings in 2006 will make 2005 look like a cake walk.

Benjamin Franklin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Bernie Mac

Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

David Brin

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Derek Bailey

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.