Famous Quotes & Sayings

English Proverbs

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.

Joddie Gleason

We know this is a big win. For us it was a big game. Saint Martin's really took it to us up there.

William Shakespeare

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

Charles Caleb Colton

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

Bernard of Clairvaux

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Bella Freud

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

Brennan Manning

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

Bret Harte

Each lost day has its patron saint!

Richard P. Feynman

Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.

Marco Brambilla

I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.

Albert Schweitzer

Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.

Richard Meyer

Learning how to behave properly in public is a good skill for business people and students to understand.

Letitia Baldrige

Mom and Dad never told them, ... Nobody ever taught them. And now there are so many young people who've not been taught by their parents, who didn't know anyway. Their grandparents may have known how to behave in the theater. But now we've got two generations down who haven't a clue!

Angela Cummings

My daughter is a very girly girl and this is the kind of thing she'd like to do anyways. Now I feel much more confident when I send her to a friend's house -- I don't have to worry whether she's going to behave or not. Reinforcing her manners from a third party really made an impact on her.

Jonathan Mostow

When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting.

Uday Kotak

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

Dan Cook

Given an opportunity to behave the way that people are accusing (Hallowell) of doing, he did not, ... If (Hallowell) were so inclined to bring a developer to somebody, it would have been me, and he didn't.

Chris Elliott

I'm not a competitive person.

Camille Paglia

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Caitlin Moran

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Cheri Huber

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Bob Phillips

The person who knows everything has the most to learn.

Beyonce Knowles

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.