Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

Albert Schweitzer

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

Albert Schweitzer

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Albert Schweitzer

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Sathya Baba

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Sathya Baba

Make the heart big and the mind pure.

Lois Frankel

Lela is the heart and soul of this city, ... And she is a... well, let's put it this way: She's an independent, strong-willed, very innovative person.

Source Unknown

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Arthur Bloch

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

Billy Connolly

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

William Shakespeare

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Erwin Rommel

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Jason Statham

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

Susan Gibson

They really like using real objects while they are playing. They like real kitchen items and real hammers and nails.

Neal A. Maxwell

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

George Herbert

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Ryan Robertson

We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight.

Raymond E. Feist

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Jamie Oliver

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Franz Ferdinand

He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.

Clara Barton

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.