Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Brennan Manning

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Jennifer Schack

We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Jim Kelley

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

Jack Crumbliss

We're going to get better. We're eventually going to get over the hump.

Zig Ziglar

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid morefor what we do.

Linda Stephenson

What a lot of people don't realize is these tests are given in preparation for the 10th-grade GQE. That's the one with the highest stakes for individual students. They have to eventually pass that to graduate.

Jim Carlin

With the legs that extend on it, he has an 18-foot reach, and it also can go six-feet down, so we started skimming the water, skimming the ground, then eventually we're down to four to five feet.

Keke Palmer

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

Donald Rumsfeld

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

Alan Paton

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

Derek Jeter

We've won it before, and anything short of that is failure. You don't work the whole off-season, spring training and six months of games to finish second or third. If you don't win, you should feel it's a failure.

Corby Maurer

We've already talked about that and they're OK with that. I want them to hear that from me and let them know I'm going to finish what I started. Hopefully that'll mean we're running track into May.

Carlos Rodriguez

We started together, and we are going to finish together.

Jeff Tageant

We started out kind of slow but we finished strong.

David Duchovny

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

Chester Brown

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

Nia Long

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

Sandy Julian

When I was in office, as a trustee and mayor, there were projects that were not finished. I just feel like I didn't finish what I started.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Mark Davies

Shane has resumed light training and hopes to progress this with a view to being included for the Ospreys match.

Uma Bharti

She hopes that she will get support from the BJP. I am supporting her because I don't think that I am separated from BJP.

Paul Nelson

We are going about this in hopes in will identify system problems.

Joe Haldeman

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Richard Hills

My hopes for Newcastle are the same as they were before Bath,

Samuel E. Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Mohammad Afzal

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Randy Copeland

Sir, two of those schools aren't even under our jurisdiction.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Cal Jillson

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

Erin Gruwell

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

David D. Burns

There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Sherry Sturner

Every year, the schools were taking another week out of our summers. It was hot. So I said, 'You know what? I've had enough.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Benjamin Franklin

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.

Brene Brown

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is not weakness.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.