Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Charles Dickens

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Charles Dickens

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Alan Watts

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Alan Watts

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Alan Watts

"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

Alan Rickman

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Scott Anderson

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

Paul Watson

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Heather Brooke

In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.

William Hastie

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

Chris Larsen

Until now, financial institutions have controlled who is able to obtain credit and the rates people pay. Over time, this one-sided control has bred inefficiencies and excessive margins -- leading to higher rates for borrowers, and restricting people who have money to lend from entering and generating income from this vital and lucrative market.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a son? A thing begot / Within a pair of minutes, thereabouts, / A lump bred up in darkness.

Steve Foley

We started slow, and they caught us off-guard a lot. It was all about us turning it up and not letting them stick around because we could end up on the wrong end.

Arturo Dubois

We are a defensive team, but I guess at one point we got caught up trying to score with them.

Deon Butler

Where I've come from, I've heard trash talking before. Once we settled down, once we caught a couple passes, you kind of tune that out.

Gilbert Arenas

When you turn on the tube you see him hitting six 3s in a game, so you know he can shoot the ball. And this was just one of those nights when he caught fire.

Heath Schroyer

We're not going to sign a post guy just because he's a post guy, ... Too many times, guys get caught up in, 'I have to have this.' You have to recruit players.

Denzel Washington

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch....

Benjamin Spock

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

Tim Duncan

When he gets into a rhythm like that where he starts going, it's like you want to sit there and watch him play. You get caught up in what he does and that's probably the worst thing that we can do is just sit there and watch him play, but you get mesmerized by what he's doing.

Josh Fox

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Catherine Bell

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Chris Brown

You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Angela Merkel

We still need to push back that moment where I'd say I'm happy, ... But I'm very satisfied.

Aimee Bender

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

David Hockney

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Antonin Artaud

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Derek Bailey

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Denzel Washington

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Bill Watterson

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

Ben Schwartz

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

Amy Lee

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

David Foster Wallace

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Charles Spurgeon

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Alan Watts

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Al Madrigal

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Graeber

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Janet Johnson

When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Sarah Jessica Parker

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

Abby Wambach

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.