Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bhagavad Gita

Verily there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. One who becomes purified by Karma-yoga discovers this knowledge within (naturally) in course of time. (See also 4.31, and 5.06).

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

E. O. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

Sean McAlinden

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

Debbie Ford

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Alexei Navalny

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Vladimir Putin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

Kevin Brady

We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with fewer workers. I'm convinced we can do it and we don't have a choice.

Jon Gruden

We might have a scratchy throat, we might have something wrong with us. But if you can play, by gosh, we're going to play. Carnell Williams is that type of kid. ... If there's any way he can play, I'm convinced he would go.

Greg Gardner

We met with family members of the suspect and convinced the family members, when they heard from their son to have him turn himself in.

Ed Schulz

She's convinced it's him and the FBI is running like it's him.

Rich Rodriguez

I don't think any one game defines a season. I don't like to put all those eggs in one basket. Never have. Don't see as I ever will.

John Abraham

I think it defines the whole film, too,

David Christensen

He redefines pain such that not even a newborn could experience pain in the way he defines it, and then concludes that fetuses can't experience pain and that's absurd.

Steve Mitchell

I think this is probably the most important project this town is going to do in the next two years. It defines what the town will be.

Jim McCarthy

It defines a neighborhood. It's kind of like our keystone piece. If it's not broken, why replace it?

Gary Vest

Obviously, most people who filled out the surveys don't know what we do. The law defines the kind of projects we do.

F. Sionil Jose

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

Leila Janah

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

Douglas Alexander

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

Don Bluth

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

Byron Katie

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

Nathan Taylor

We started off slow, but we're finding ourselves in each and every game.

Arne Jacobsen

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Diablo Cody

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Dick Clark

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

Arundhati Roy

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

C. S. Lewis

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

Errol Morris

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Steve Kolenda

We're just forming this on our own. We're just going to give people another voice.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

John Newton

I think a lot of it is a forming of attitudes. I think, primarily, they know our name but they don't know much about us.

Elizabeth Thornton

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

Phil Hardberger

Nobody is tied to a special interest, none that I can discern, which means they are all independent, and that is so important to forming a team, because if you have somebody who is sold out to a special interest they're never going to get along.

Brent Trout

This would be another step for Boone in biotech and value-added agriculture to push that marketing niche we're forming in our community.

Rob Reiner

We are more than willing to get involved in forming a new system.

Charles Dickens

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Alan Watts

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

Alan Ball

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

Indian Proverb

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Bill Johnson

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

Edith Piaf

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

August Wilson

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible....

Deborah Harkness

Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,

Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charles Tupper

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Al Pacino

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Byron Katie

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Ato Essandoh

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

Carlos Fuentes

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

Roy Cooper

While many of the projects may have been worthy of consideration, the way they were funded makes them suspect in the public's mind,

E. P. Thompson

We feel that this is a win-win for the foundation, so we need to make sure we're selling the project on all fronts.

Les Claypool

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

Megan Smith

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Ronda Rousey

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Eliot Spitzer

Somehow the vitality of New York state has been sapped.

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Brian Gionta

We know we need to start scoring. We just have to stick with it. We know we're doing the right things.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

German Proverb

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top

David Seiders

When you start to see cancellations, you really get worried.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Grady Fuson

When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Charlie Chaplin

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Charlie Chaplin

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

Charlie Chaplin

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Charles Wang

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

Charles Tillman

I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.

Charles Tillman

I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

Charles Taze Russell

Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

Charles W. Pickering

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Charles de Gaulle

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?

Cary Fukunaga

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Chris Whitaker

Until you've won a title you'll never be completely happy.

Robbie Earl

Yes, I have that kind of title on my back. But I'll put up my numbers. It's just going to be a little harder.

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

Adelaide Kane

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

Alison Krauss

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.