Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Gary Locke

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

George Graham

We have schools teaching yoga, rock-climbing, martial arts, fly-fishing, ... If a kid is in a program that hasn't changed from when the parents were in school, it's just not OK.

Oliver Kahn

We have a small lead over Werder Bremen but things can change quickly. We were lucky in this game.

Oliver Kahn

We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.

Lynn Fox

We have no plans to change the guidance policy.

Stephane Dion

We have no choice but to act. Climate change is the worst threat the world is facing from an environmental perspective. It's putting at risk our relationship with the planet.

Dan Bartlett

What the public wants is back-to-basics governance and decision-making. This is not a situation in which it changes overnight or that there's a 'Hail Mary' pass that changes the dynamic. . . . There's not a magic bullet.

Matt Barnes

Whenever we need some kind of big play to change the course of the game, we look for Crosby to do it. He's always a threat to score no matter where he has the ball.

Herbie Hancock

When I'm sensitive to the circumstances surrounding me, then I can be inspired by them or use them in whatever I may be creating.

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.

Peter Power

We're not going to say anything tonight, under no circumstances.

Simon Brown

We're still reviewing the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Most of the investigation is complete. At this point, we're largely in the evaluation stage of the review.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Tony Wagner

We're sorry about the circumstances, ... but we're glad to have a young man and a football player of his caliber.

Greg Craig

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Michael Herring

She doesn't want to take pills because of all the circumstances that occurred.

Scott Cleland

The external trends are in Dorman's favor, ... while internal trends favor Stephenson.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Jim Padilla

She's the heart and soul of the organization and the external leader. We have a short window of opportunity. If we don't do this (fundraising campaign) there's a risk there won't be a Focus: HOPE going forward.

Kurt Eichenwald

Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.

Bradley Whitford

Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us.

William Shakespeare

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul

Diogenes

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.

Jeffrey Benjamin

External superiority is the result of internal inferiority.

Tift Merritt

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Eckhart Tolle

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

Delphine de Girardin

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Rusty Schweickart

We're sitting in a shooting gallery, with hundreds of thousands of these things whizzing around in the inner solar system. So it's just a matter of time.

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Ryan Rourke

The Pancake Man went well. We served over 150 people.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Samuel Smiles

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Selman Waksman

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Sarah Snook

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Nong Duc Manh

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

Billy Graham

One of the things we desperately need is a spiritual renewal in this country. We need a spiritual revival in America.

Zach Nelson

If they don't like you, they don't renew. Renewal is everything.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

Jim Butcher

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Nicole Kidman

You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

John Dewey

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

Lady Bird Johnson

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Jared Diamond

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!