Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Jenji Kohan

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

Jennifer Lawless

What we do need to do though is look at what's working in public and chartered schools and start engaging different kinds of experts to integrate that policy into the public school system.

Bryan Cogman

As far as engaging with fans... it's a tricky thing. I enjoy seeing the feedback on Twitter, etc. It's probably the actor in me.

Neil Strauss

The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.

Jeff Swanagan

We want to be the world's most engaging aquarium.

Pankaj Mishra

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

Wilford Kale

He is, to me, a very likable individual with a very engaging and outgoing personality. I think that - and the fact that everybody gets a honeymoon - has given him a remarkable beginning.

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

D. James

We started out a little slow, a little sluggish. I think it was because the refs weren't on time. We warmed up and got the sweat and everything going in the anticipation of the match only to have to wait another half-hour until kickoff.

Charlie Lane

We started off slow with some tough matches in the first round. We got better as we went.

Jerry McSwords

We were a match away from making it look a little more respectable.

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Ron Hutchins

We're going to take it one match at a time.

Andre Agassi

When we got done with that match I said he's a top-10 player,

Jennifer Barretta

Usually, for me, when I get through that first match the nerves go away and I can get into a groove.

Daniel Maly

We're in the same boat. I think we match up with them pretty well. It's going to come down to whoever executes the best.

Scott Bogumil

We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.

Charles Dickens

The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

Charles Dickens

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Charles Stanley

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

Charles Stanley

As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.

Charles Stanley

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Charles Stanley

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Charles Stanley

Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

David Tom

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

John Knowles

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

David Farber

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

Charles Caleb Colton

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Alan Paton

There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

Alan Rickman

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Alan Moore

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Moore

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Al Stewart

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

Akon

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.