Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Howard Schultz

We want to stay here. We love this city. We raised our kids here. We built our businesses here and we're being forced to accept a set of circumstances that are not acceptable. We can't continue to lose this kind of money.

Chogyam Trungpa

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Carl Sagan

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

Byron Katie

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Cesare Pavese

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

O. Singh

The One who established the Universe He alone knows the Way, what can anyone say? The One who established the world cast the net over it, accept Him as your Lord and Master.

Catherynne M. Valente

Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

Michael Watson

The other respondents involved in this case settled with us and admitted wrongdoing,

Tom Fitton

The point is we need to get all of the facts on the table about this admitted felon's contacts with White House officials.

Mark Ogden

We've also seen cases involving rapidly deteriorating performance and the employees later admitted that they had gone several days without sleep, because they were using the drug.

Abu Sabaya

We are admitting it, we are the ones who did it.

David Garrity

There are cases where the execution could be admittedly flawed. But, for a company as large as Ford, this is not to say that they won't eventually succeed.

Jeff Justice

We're in a position where one of these two statements is a lie. He's admitted he's lied about the most important part of his testimony so how can the judge allow this person to testify? But that's what judges do, they make decisions.

Larry Phillips

Where there's a problem, she's willing to admit there is a problem and find a constructive solution, ... That's a welcome change.

Doris Meissner

Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion, ... This is not just my opinion, which I admit is biased. This is a view that is shared throughout INS and by your peers in other law enforcement agencies, far and wide, here and abroad. They have described Operation Reunion as a textbook example of operations preparation and execution. It also proved to be the pivotal step in closing one of the most difficult chapters in the history of INS work.

Bill Ayers

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here until I was 20. I am not only Italian, I am partly Swedish. When my parents divorced, I was three years old and went to live in Paris... when I am offered a film in Europe, I come with great enthusiasm!

Andreas Katsulas

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

Ed Dunlop

She's run very well and, in a sense, we are delighted because there were little question marks after Dubai. I liked the way she accelerated. The story rolls on.

Nita Ambani

We are very happy to have Sachin as the Mumbai Indians Icon. I am sure the youngsters in the team will be delighted to have him around for guidance, and so would be the Mumbai Indians fans.

Brian Kelley

We are delighted that Keith has joined our team.

Sebastian Coe

We are delighted that he will be flying the flag for us on July 6th.

Dan Kirkby

We are delighted for them. It really will be a life-changing experience. They really will be getting a warm welcome on the streets of London.

Sebastian Coe

We are delighted - a lot of hard work has paid off

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Where's the man could ease a heart / Like a satin gown?

Earl Wilson

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Craig Albright

We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.

Bernard Malamud

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

Stone Gossard

We're going to make better and better records as we get older, especially considering this one kind of rocks harder. Why should we be rocking harder now? Isn't this when we're supposed to ease into the whole Pink Floyd groove?

Benjamin Franklin

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Benjamin Franklin

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

David A. Siegel

The Web itself doesn't as much change the way we do things as it changes the ease with which we do things. And that changes the way we do everything.

David Cohen

She herself feels comfortable now and that should help ease pressure on the financial markets. Many investors had thought that the sooner (she ends the emergency rule), the better for the economy.

Sir Campbell

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

Source Unknown

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Mark Boudreaux

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

Jared Bernstein

Explaining the unique characteristics of this unbalanced recovery is more like 'Murder on the Orient Express' than finding a smoking gun in somebody's hands. There are a lot of suspects.

Lord Byron

Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.

Bruce Young

You can learn a whole lot in a short period of time from a guide, as long as he's explaining what he wants you to do.

Sue Thilo

We need to do a better job of explaining it.

Piet Hein

People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining me.

Madeline Albright

I think that Senator Kerry has been working on explaining that. It hasn't come through, ... He is making that message very loud and clear.

Alan Watts

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

David Brin

Change is the very fabric of our time.

Denis Waitley

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Anne Stillman

We want to preserve as much of the historic fabric as is possible.

Charles Ives

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Arundhati Roy

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Billy Corgan

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Ralph Lauren

The fabrics, whether it be hand-painted prints at the end, or whether it be new knits and stretch fabrics ... sort of make the whole world.

Liberty Ross

I love the fabric of Genetic jeans. There's a softness. I always travel in them. It feels like you're in like your most comfortable pajamas.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Kabir Bedi

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

Patrick Chappatte

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

Florence Aubenas

I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.

Toni Morrison

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Alyce Wiedner

We've never had an argument. We've never had any problems.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Simon Crisford

She had a lot of little problems in the winter and then more in the spring,

Aguri Suzuki

Since we launched the team in a short period, assorted problems are rising and there are many things that should be solved.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

David Bonior

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

Cindy Clough

We still have the same problems we had 30 years ago.

Mitch McConnell

We're not quietly killing it; we're proudly killing it. We're not apologizing for killing this unconstitutional bill." ()

Ryan Giggs

Records are not important to me at this stage and I don't consciously think about them, but they are something I will be able to look back on proudly when I have finished.

William Shakespeare

Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter.

Mike Melson

Once we have the person in our sights and they see us, we seldom have a struggle.

John Hume

He seldom errs / Who thinks the worst he can of womankind.

Ron Peterson

Very seldom it happens, but occasionally it does.

Stevie Smith

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

Charles Koch

To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.

Audre Lorde

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Alanis Morissette

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Alan Watts

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Alan Watts

Duality is always secretly unity.

Alan Arkin

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.