Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Crawford

You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.

C. S. Lewis

At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

Tom Blake

When he gets his shots within the flow of the offense, he's good.

Charlotte Bronte

My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.

Charlotte Bronte

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

Charlotte Bronte

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Charles Sumner

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

Kurt Vonnegut

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Mason Cooley

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

Kofi Annan

If the U.S. and others were to go outside the council and take military action, it would not be in conformity with the charter.

James Richardson

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Eric Hoffer

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone

Bennett Miller

The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see.

Shane Koyczan

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

James A. Baldwin

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Cervantes Saavedra

True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Duke of Wellington

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Confucius

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Mohandas Gandhi

Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Ernest Hemingway

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Johnson

In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.