Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Walters

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

Laura Mvula

I'm not like my siblings, who are musical but can turn their hands to other professions! I'd always wanted to be involved in music - I'm a great believer in doing things that fulfil you.

Dana Fox

I'm a believer in paying your dues.

Leonard Susskind

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

Rita Ora

I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.

Pope XVI

Like a wave gathering force, my thoughts go out to all men and women of today, to believers and non-believers alike.

Chelsea Clinton

I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

Gary Barber

I'm a strong believer the process will work because Russell George is a charismatic leader from the Western Slope.

John Abrams

I'm a strong believer in commitment to a place.

John Grogan

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

Tyra Banks

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

Lee Siegel

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

Gavin Newsom

I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,

Frank Moore Colby

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Leslie Ballin

To me, a statement and confession are not necessarily synonymous.

Joseph Towle

There is nothing, first of all, nothing more sacred then the seal of confession, ... I did not consider this to fall under that precise seal of confession because he had not come to me explicitly seeking absolution, but to find a solution on how he could help his friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Agnes Repplier

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Joel Diemond

The real history of the U.N. lies in the perceived failure of the League of Nations.

Susan B. Anthony

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

Tom Hooper

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Bryan Ferry

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Carter G. Woodson

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Bradley Chicho

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

Al Gore

has been a friend, and it's my fervent hope that he will also be our nominee in the year 2004.

Elliott Pollack

It is my fervent hope that they don't do the same thing this time. The level of single-family housing growth in Phoenix and Tucson is not sustainable.

Bob Roach

I would like them to pay. Our fervent hope is that they feel pain.

Pat Hanlon

Any time people who are ardent, fervent supporters of your franchise have a place to go to share in that fervor, I think it's a good thing.

Deborah Sampson

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

John Ricci

But if (nursing homes) don't have vaccines by the end of the month, they will probably start making more fervent pleas.

Thomas Monson

Nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal, fervent prayer and its heaven-sent response. "

Gore Vidal

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

Tracy Letts

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Michael Chetcuti

We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.

Bob Dylan

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Benjamin Disraeli

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Steve Smith

Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.

C. S. Lewis

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

Aaron Swartz

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Charlotte Bronte

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlie Chaplin

What a sad business is being funny!

Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Charles Caleb Colton

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Suzy Menkes

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.