Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Channing

The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls.

Gareth Gates

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

Carl Schurz

The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.

Cate Blanchett

I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.

Brenton Thwaites

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

David Suzuki

I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?

David Suzuki

This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed, it can't grow, and yet we cling to this idea that the economy can grow forever. And it must. Well, it can't.

Julian Fellowes

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

James Walston

He will go, but he'll go screaming. He can perhaps hold a little longer. He is clinging with such tenacity it's staggering.

Katarina Srebotnik

Miracles happen, right? ... That's why I want to thank the WTA trainers. I think they've done a miracle right here.

Larry Sabato

Miracles happen, but it really would be a miracle if the upcoming session were one of Kentucky's most productive.

Maeve Binchy

Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

Graham Greene

Of course, before we know he is a saint, there will have to be miracles.

Denis Diderot

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Deepak Chopra

If you knew that miracles could happen, what miracles would you wish for? If you knew that you could have it all and do anything you wanted, what would you choose to have and what would you choose to do?

Deepak Chopra

If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being.

Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Mao Zedong

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Edward Gibbon

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Scottish Proverbs

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

Homer

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Plato

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

John Owen

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

Joan Armatrading

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

John Calvin

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Mike Leavitt

No one in the world is ready for it, ... But we're more ready today than we were yesterday. And we'll be more prepared tomorrow than we are today.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Seth Greenberg

I don't think anything in my training has prepared me for this season. I'm not sure there's ever been another season like this. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Deepak Chopra

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

Melaney Arnold

We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.

Carlos Gonzalez

Only when the ETA killers served out their sentences will we be prepared to talk.

Fernando Gonzalez

I was prepared for a tough match. In the second set, he started to serve much better. He started to come on and he had me under pressure.

Aaron Gelobter

I got the call, and I immediately prepared myself for what I had been seeing on TV.

Danny Hale

He was our punter. And had a real promising future.

Jeff Colton

It doesn't look promising for a wet spring at this point.

Tom Joyner

It's just unbelievable that a talent so young and so promising is gone,

Richard Aboulafia

You're tapping in to the most promising revenue stream in the world.

Chris Williamson

This is quite unusual and it's a very promising result.

James Mason

I'm not promising a state championship, but we should go far.

Syvelle Newton

They were promising me that I could play anything I want to, just like I'm doing now,

Erma Bombeck

She's as funny as a toothache

Ellen Goodman

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.