Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

OCCASIONAL, adj. Afflicting us with greater or less frequency. That, however, is not the sense in which the word is used in the phrase "occasional verses," which are verses written for an "occasion," such as an anniversary, a celebration or other event. True, they afflict us a little worse than other sorts of verse, but their name has no reference to irregular recurrence.

Condoleezza Rice

No offer that can help alleviate the suffering of the people in the afflicted area will be refused,

Charles Spurgeon

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Atharva Veda

If only he had known the truth, all that grief could have been avoided. So too, until you know that all are altars where the name God is installed and all are moved and motivated by the Grace of the self-same God, you are afflicted by hate and pride; once you know it and experience it, you are full of Love and reverence to all.

Atharva Veda

Sickness afflicts those who commit sins; God Himself sits as the Judge.

Max Beerbohm

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him

Gregory Maguire

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

Bible Bible

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Henry Cabot Lodge

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

Isabella Rossellini

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.

Robert Teeter

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

Sathya Baba

LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

Mark Erickson

Life is great. The miracles I've experienced. The sharing of experiences with friends, family, like I've never seen before. These are things that I avoided my whole life, not choosing to be a part of, but today I cherish them.

Jason Martin

Lunch is time sensitive, so I pick a venue that I can get in and out of quickly to avoid being late.

Joe Durkin

Make your plans early. Choose a designated driver so you get home safely and avoid the possibility of injuring yourself or others.

Steven Heighton

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Gary Sharpe

Let me give you a bit of history. Two years ago, Andover came in here and Bam! Andover beat Kimball and shocked some people. Last year they came in here and Bam! Andover beat Kimball again. We were trying to avoid a three-peat.

Risa Stewart

Loud, excessive grunting and throwing your weights around on the floor usually go together, so we try to avoid it.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Richard P. Feynman

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Mamata Banerjee

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

David Shore

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

Barbara Jordan

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Mark McKechnie

September will be challenging for handset makers. We are generally cautious on the group.

Scott Gottlieb

Maybe we're not being overly cautious but instead trying to be responsive.

Tim McCune

My dad was really cautious on some things and I think he was trying to help my mom out the best, I mean let her go before he did. That's kind of the way he is." ()

Andrey Denisov

My government is always very cautious with such sensitive issues as Syria-Lebanon.

Lindy Ruff

Maybe another player would have called it a day already, but he worked hard and had no qualms about getting back in there again. Some players, it would be an easy scenario to pull back. He's not that cautious guy.

Jim Delgado

Obviously this next week is going to be crucial. We're going to see what national groups are doing. We're staying in line with them. . . . You have to be responsible about your actions, you can't take people outside to the streets all the time. We have to be very cautious in how we are perceived.

Peter Thomison

Growers need to be cautious of some of their production practices when planting corn, especially when dealing with uncontrollable events like the weather.

David Rayburn

Given the current outlook for industry volumes and cost challenges we are taking a more cautious position on our fiscal 2006 earnings. We now expect that earnings per share from continuing operations will be flat to slightly down compared with $1.79 from continuing operations reported in fiscal 2005.

Andy Bryant

Four-to-8 percent is slower than you would normally expect to get out of the fourth quarter. We're being a little cautious and we're going to watch and see what develops.

Rem Koolhaas

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

Tom Wolfe

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

John Cridland

The question is whether compulsion would solve the problem of a lack of saving for retirement. We don't think it will.

James Stephens

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

Edward P. Jones

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Albert Einstein

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Aeschylus

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Alan Alda

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

Jalal Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Ken Keyes

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

Ken Keyes

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

Khalil Gibran

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

John Oxenham

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Ursula LeGuin

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Buddha

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

William Blake

Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

Werner Herzog

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.

Harold Bloom

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Erin McKean

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Jeri Ryan

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

Martin H. Fischer

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Grant Heslov

That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it makes me a little frightened.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

Frank Roder

We're not doing it to escape anything. We're doing it to help kids.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

Alberto Gonzales

Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,

Lord Falconer

No one should be able to escape justice by not turning up when they're supposed to.

Romesh Gunesekera

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

Rene Saguisag

Now that they are free men, if they have really escaped as the military claims, then the more they should be able to communicate with us with ease.

Kathleen Blanco

I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.

Joel Heesch

If we don't start playing like an experienced team, this year will escape us, without us doing what we want to do.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Robert Green Ingersoll

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

Billy Mays

Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.

William Wordsworth

Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.

Marcus Garvey

Up, up, you mighty race!/ You can accomplish/ what you will.

George Taylor

I just don't trust it, ... mighty preliminary.

Travis DeWalt

If you look at his frame, he doesn't look like Mighty Mouse.

Bob McDavitt

It will be in quickly and out quickly. This system has been packing a mighty punch.

Alex Solis

If he was only 90 percent, that's mighty exciting.

Diablo Cody

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Diana Gabaldon

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Edna Ferber

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Gene Wilder

What is essential is invisible to the eye,

Nadia Giosia

I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

Jodi Picoult

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Federico Fellini

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Mitch Albom

Love wins, love always wins.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.