Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

Charles de Gaulle

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Lint

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

Charles Caleb Colton

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

Charles Caleb Colton

That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

Charles Stanley

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Charles Spurgeon

I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

Charles Spurgeon

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

John Berger

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

Randy Bachman

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

Barry Humphries

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

Neal Thigpen

He drifted away like he lost every thought he had. He was lost in space.

Jim Calhoun

You kind of drifted on me. When am I going to get you back?

Ron Gardenhire

It drifted down, and he just went and got it.

Kim Miller

The smoke has drifted farther south. In some areas, the visibility is about 10 feet. As soon as the visibility improves we will reopen those roadways.

Michael Sata

Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.

Michael Cahill

It took her a while to pick up from that and she was probably only going to win by a neck but when she drifted back to the inside and found the rail she really put her mind on the job.

Carlos Beltran

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Castaneda

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Johnny Damon

We have to go out and expect to win every game. I think everyone knows it's our job.

Steve Ballmer

We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.

Kiran More

We have named him in the team. We expect him to be fit. Let us wait till tomorrow.

Stephen Reitman

We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit.

Jamal Mayers

When you're up 5-3 going into the third period, you expect to win. They won because they worked harder than we did. It's as simple as that.

Brian McCutcheon

When he gets the puck, people start to come out of their seats. It's expect the unexpected with Max." ()

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Myles Brand

We have resolved all differences. We found a way to go forward. This is a significant agreement.

Bill Taylor

The process has been reviewed, and it's been found to be safe.

Kyle Waters

We used to send out material before school started but we've found that just being visible gets the word out.

Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tim Tebow

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Dominic James

We have positive places around this community. One of them is Townsend Center.

P. J. O'Rourke

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

Diane von Furstenberg

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Dhani Jones

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.

Bill Murray

Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.

Darrel Hoffman

When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.

Lynsey Addario

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Cory Doctorow

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Made Pastika

We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Nicholas Sparks

So I put out a search for him,

Arkady Volozh

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Debbie DeCarlo

I find myself searching faces, but they all look the same.

Victoria de los Angeles

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

Chris Grinde

To go zone was just kind of searching to see. We were searching for something to be a little better.

Corey Thacker

We've done a lot of soul searching throughout the year. We had to find out who we really were as a team.

Daunte Culpepper

We don't have to search for a different personality. We just have to do what we do.