Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Don Walchuk

We were trying to get on our feet before we lost it.

Alan Shepard

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Alan Shearer

People say he doesn't score a lot of goals with his head, but does he really have to with the ability he has in his feet? He makes spectacular goals look easy. His technique is fantastic. (on Thierry Henry)

Charlotte Bronte

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

Charles W. Pickering

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

Richard G. Scott

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

Bret Easton Ellis

And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.

Djuna Barnes

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

Julia Roberts

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

Mark Twain

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

Mahatma Gandhi

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Mahatma Gandhi

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is not a codified religion.

Kerry Greenwood

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.

Natasha Trethewey

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Carl Sibilski

McDonald's crossed the $20 billion mark for the first time in global sales and also did it while translating 12.7 percent of that into net income, which is very admirable for a restaurant company.

Steve Smith

Seattle is a very admirable team. They're very experienced. Everything that team did today was superb.

Nick Burgess

Nick England did an admirable job. The kid that he wrestled had pinned by him before at the Thomas Worthington tournament (Feb. 4) and Nick lost by decision in the sectional.

Attorney Morano

I believe the State Police did an admirable job making contact with judicial officials, with my office and the people on the front lines being exposed. I think they also did a great job investigating immediately. Every time you have an incident you can learn from it, but I'd leave it to them.

Unknown

to the Bride and Groom There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Irving Wallace

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Sean O'Faolain

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.