Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Charles Caleb Colton

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Alan Watts

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

Alan Watts

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Alan Hansen

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Alan Bennett

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Alain Prost

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Alain Prost

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Mads Mikkelsen

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Amy Johnson

We are pretty solid. It all depends on how this team comes together.

Charles Fletcher

We're in discussions to resolve the issues. That's the track we're working on now. It just depends on whether or not we reach a meeting of the minds. We're not quite there yet.

Heidi Klum

We start early in the morning with hair and makeup. It depends what time of the year it is. In the summertime we start at 5:30 in the morning.

Pavel Nedved

We start as equals on Sunday. Inter have many qualities, like us after all. You can't say who is the strongest, it depends on the day..on how we've slept at night.

Beyonce Knowles

Everyone's not good at everything, it's ok to depend on someone.

Jaleesa Ross

We have so many weapons. It just depends on who's hot. Tonight I was feeling it.

Molly Ringwald

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

Rebecca Lindland

Whether it will steer people into a GM vehicle is hard to say. It all depends on the cost. People all say they want run-flat tires, but when they find out how much they cost, they do without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Charles Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Stanley

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.

Charles Spurgeon

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Alan Watts

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.