Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Brian Tracy

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Al Davis

We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Jack McConnell

Sir Tom is one of today's greatest Scots." ()

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Aristotle

The greatest victory is over self.

Carre Otis

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

Carol Mann

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Carol Shields

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

Carlos Castaneda

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

Carlos Castaneda

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Laurie Lee

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

English 15th Century Proverbs

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

Geoff Mulgan

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

Rudyard Kipling

And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!

Kim Campbell

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

Joan Felt

My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man.

Bill Gates

No one will ever need more then 640K Memory

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

Adam Loewen

I don't remember what he said. I've got a short-term memory.

E. Joseph Cossman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Brian Jaffe

We plan 33 percent replacements, and ... there will be some that need memory or BIOS.

Irish Proverb

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Bill Engvall

I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.

Dee Brown

When he got back in, he made his presence known.

Odette Annable

Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!

Jane Austen

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Nancy Young

We're still going to have a significant presence in Alabama.

Carl Risch

She ran tough, really made her presence felt.

Ira Glass

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

Pam Smith

Without that presence being out there, we are not stimulating new business.

Jeff Fisher

We're not done. Veteran presence is important to us.

C. S. Lewis

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

Aaron Swartz

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Charlotte Bronte

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlie Chaplin

What a sad business is being funny!

Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Charles Caleb Colton

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Suzy Menkes

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.