Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Bible Bible

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Erik Anderson

What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.

Roy Hallums

Coalition forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Baghdad,

Bible Bible

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Hans Frank

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

Bob Barker

There's only one solution to the tragic, the embarrassing elephant problem going on at (the zoo), and it's to release those elephants from captivity and place them in a sanctuary.

James Loney

I'm eager to tell my story of rescue and captivity but I need a little time.

Bible Bible

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Jeff Morrow

Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Jimmy Buffett

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Danny Huston

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

Donald Pleasence

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

Corita Kent

Damn everything but the circus

Jeremy Roenick

I think it's going to be a circus for them,

Jim Smith

He's going to turn the courtroom into a circus and we can't have it.

Catherynne M. Valente

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

Charles Laughton

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

Betty White

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

David Hume

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

David Brin

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

Arthur Mutambara

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

Bill Murray

You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.

C. S. Lewis

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

Charlie Chaplin

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

Joan Didion

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.