Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lightman

There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

Adam Baldwin

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

Anne Sexton

I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.

Jan Karon

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

Jim C. Hines

This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

Jim C. Hines

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

Groucho Marx

Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

Henry David Thoreau

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

Dirk Benedict

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Jane Addams

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Alain Badiou

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,

Brigham Young

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

Brendon Burchard

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

Anthony de Mello

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Alexis Knapp

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

Dusty Springfield

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

Cole Porter

What moments divine , what rapture serene.

Charles Spurgeon

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!

Charles Spurgeon

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

Charles Portis

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

Charles Portis

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Diane Lane

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

Diane Keaton

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

Debra Winger

The older you get, the more you've done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.