Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Berry

What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow.

Bryan Q. Miller

The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.

Scott Reed

I'd watch for a rematch with these gentlemen--absolutely. If the loser goes out in a dignified manner, he'll be a shoo-in for his party's nomination in four years.

Russell Feingold

If by dignified they mean that tough questions are out of bounds, I must strongly disagree,

Angel Cabrera

I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job.

Malcolm Miller

If it were a person, it would be a woman, a very dignified old lady. She is beautiful. She is royal. She has kept her charms.

Al Sharpton

In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.

Pape Diouf

Those who will play will give it all they have to represent Marseille in a dignified manner.

Russ Feingold

Some have called for a dignified process. So have I. But at times, it sounds like what some really want for the nominee is an easy process,

Charles Dickens

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

Alan Chambers

Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus. So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it's gay activists or now a New Testament professor.

Alan Chambers

I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

Alan Chambers

But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn't rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.

Alan Ball

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

Al Sharpton

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

Chris Colfer

I really think, without trying to give us credit that we don't deserve, I really feel like Kurt and Blaine are a modern version of Lucy and Ricky. Oh, I'm Lucy for sure.

Chris Christie

I would not compromise my principles for politics. You're saying, will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having? If it does, so be it. I don't compromise my principles for politics.

David Sedaris

I'm for gay elopement, not for gay weddings. I've been with my boyfriend for twenty years. I don't feel like that would validate our relationship in any way. But I would really fight for someone else to have the right. Just elope, though, please.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Cornelia Funke

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

David Levithan

As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

John Donne

Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

Mahatma Gandhi

Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Amanda Butler

They know it's not a sickness they can get.

Flannery O'Connor

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

J. C. Ryle

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.