Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

Charlotte Bronte

You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Charlotte Bronte

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charles Caleb Colton

Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

Charles Dickens

I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

Samantha Harvey

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

Susan B. Anthony

Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.

Diane von Furstenberg

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

Diane von Furstenberg

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.

Carlos Castaneda

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Brent Spiner

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

Selvin Young

We know we don't get a lot of attention. We just feel we're a numbers team. We let our numbers speak for us.

Dianne Feinstein

I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated.

Dianne Feinstein

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Jerry Mackey

We're not good enough to have defensive lapses. Normally, when we score 59 points, that's enough. Offensively, we're doing some good things, but defensively it looks like a circus sometimes.

Jimmy Buffett

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

Gary Neville

The players do not have to lift themselves, they know their responsibilities. I am sure we will hear a lot over the next few days about how we are not going to be playing European football after Christmas. There will be a circus but we have to remove ourselves from that.

Howard Thompson

We only have the circus once a year. I'd like to see another big turnout.

Leslie Brolin

We'll have face painting and hula hoop games and other circus challenges, as well as novelty photo ops things like that.

Jim Smith

He's going to turn the courtroom into a circus and we can't have it.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Roberto Aguire

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.