Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Turner

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

Eula Biss

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

John Desmond Bernal

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

Heather Murren

We are pleased to extend our service to the communities of Nevada.

Scott Atkinson

We're still refocusing on this area, the neighborhood, family, extended family, friends, people who would have a reason to be in the house, to be in this neighborhood -- the same thing we were doing yesterday,

Scott Henderson

We might have a facility here in Bastrop to handle some of the people who won't be able to go home for extended period,

Robin Cook

There is no purpose in extending the talks any further,

Scott Peck

Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Sam Smith

Last year we extended it, and it worked so well. We have a lot of retired people in the area, so many people can work during the week and many of them do.

Carlos Ghosn

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Jonathan Davis

When Family Values first started it felt like music was fresh and exciting. We want to recreate that same feeling for our fans, and offer them a full day of fun and some great music.

Joyce Kesse

We want her back. Our family is aching.

Agnes Smedley

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

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.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

John Rentoul

But that's not to say it's not sincere as well.

Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Michelle Shocked

Yeah, I am a hick. I am naive, and I am sincere and it's wonderfully unfashionable.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Louis MacNeice

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

John Wilson

My sympathies to those who make it through to the end.