Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kumail Nanjiani

I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.

Mallory Ortberg

I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

Ralph Bellamy

Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

St. Teresa

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the yogi seated in solitude and alone having mind and senses under control and free from desires and attachments for possessions, try constantly to contemplate on the Supreme Self.

Mike Brey

Luke's been very solid there. He's come a long way with his post defense and his defensive rebounding. (Fordham) left him alone and he made shots and gave us a double-digit lead we didn't relinquish.

Kathy Heustess

Make time to go off together and be alone without the kids. The marital relationship is the primary relationship in the home. Children will feel most secure when they know Mom and Dad are secure.

Matthew Lombardi

Mac did an awesome job. I saw him wheeling down there and he got to the puck first and then battled it out and then a one-handed pass, it was great. I was all alone and he gave me all the time in the world so hats off to him.

John Oldham

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

Rick Perlstein

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

The Talmud

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

The Talmud

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th

Kobita Desai

Major overseas telecom players are increasingly looking beyond their home markets in the face of flat growth.

John Waters

Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay. You couldn't come out. It was illegal. But he had a sense of humor about the glamour he was caught in. He's a great sport, and a great star.

Jamie Dixon

Maggie touched so many people beyond basketball. ...As an older brother I know she looked up to me. But I always looked up to her, too, and it's obvious that a lot of other people did as well.

Unknown

Let your love endure beyond the last sunset.

Jim Jeffers

Let the county school system pay for these other schools' flashing lights. This is our charter school. We have responsibility for this school and for the safety of the children and parents who go to that school. I see no reason why we can't extend beyond the guidelines.

Barry Long

Love is beyond the mind because it is always new.

Eduardo Paes

President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow his lead and innovate. It is inevitable.

Orison Swett Marden

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

Jacqueline Novogratz

President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.

Todd Boyd

Converse hasn't really had a name since Dr. J.,

Dwyane Wade

Converse has history. I want to be part of what comes next.

Go Ah-sung

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

Melissa Rivers

I'm a big fan of the laceless Converse for travel, with cute jeans, and throw on a little jacket, and you look presentable.

J. D. Salinger

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

John Christopher

In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.

Christopher Thompson

Let them know they hold the key to the 22,000 jobs.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

David Pickett

Much has been written about 'super mums', but there are many 'super dads', holding down jobs and doing work at home.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Mike Greene

McNabb was having his game, but we were holding him pretty good. And we just let it get away from us. That's just part of being a young team.

Unknown

May the joys of today Be those of tomorrow. The goblets of life Hold no dregs of sorrow.

Michael Shermer

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

Blake Shelton

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

Byron Katie

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Kathi Glist

We approached the Hilton. We were looking for a nice, intimate venue, an intimate place. It was our first choice.

bell hooks

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

Carroll Quigley

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

Deepak Chopra

The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

Theo James

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

Corey Reynolds

Theres a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera, and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.

A. B. Yehoshua

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Alan Alda

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

Aristotle

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Thomas Ryan

Let him sit here in his skivvies while we get him a new suit if they want to play like that.

Greg Sterling

Many of these video-sharing sites are all variations on a theme. So at some point, we're going to see consolidation.

Joe Keller

Now we won't be sitting on each other's laps. This will be nice.

Jack Nicholson

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

John Delaney

I can't see a sustainable situation here, because there are too many loopholes.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Rick Sparks

True. I just wish they could spread it out a little more.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Daniel H. Wilson

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Georg Petersen

It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.

Tommy Tuberville

It is full-speed tackling, and we want to see them compete. But we're not going to go out there and do a lot of things that's going to get spread around.

Steve McClain

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

Darryl Drake

That comes with time. When you've got a young quarterback, a new quarterback with the system, the more comfortable he gets, the more he'll start spreading it around.

Cai Guo-Qiang

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Coco Chanel

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Anaxagoras

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Oscar Wilde

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Marianne Williamson

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

Guy Finley

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.