Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Massenet

You can get a slouchy woman's tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you're going to have to spend a little more.

M. Thompson

This was a sacred day ù a very delicate kind of thing. There was that little period where there was a no-fly zone on this subject matter, with a few exceptions. Probably now, enough time has passed and we're getting new perspective on this.

William Wordsworth

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;And love and thought and joy.

Joseph Schwieterman

The real excitement starts now as they gradually merge two operations. They've got the two-year window, but it will be a delicate act,

Amy J. Berg

The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.

Carlo Ancelotti

We are going through a delicate time and we must overcome this situation as soon as possible. We are making mistakes and as usual in football you pay for them.

C. L. R. James

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

Howard Staunton

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

Michael Steele

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

Phyllis Schlafly

The people who want to dissolve or diminish American sovereignty and replace it with global governance never give up. Their modus operandi is to work toward their one-world goal incrementally through United Nations treaties.

Jacqueline Whitmore

Whenever we make a mistake such as talking with a mouthful of food, ordering the wrong kinds of foods or holding our fork like a shovel, we ruin a relationship and diminish our personal brand.

Freda Adler

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Eduardo Galeano

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

Peter Clarke

Since July, the pace of investigation, the scale of the threat has not diminished in any way whatsoever.

Sebastian Briozzo

Lower fiscal and external vulnerabilities diminishes the downside risk for these economies over the short term. A continuation of this recent performance is therefore expected in 2006.

Carrie Fisher

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

Adrienne Rich

Any woman's death diminishes me.

Anne Morgan

She goes in disguise uptown to thieve in the homes of the rich. She's a survivor.

Miranda Hart

My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.

Sarah MacLean

There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.

Billy Zane

I'm a superhero in disguise as a ne'er-do-well cad.

Richard Armitage

Now, whether it is the mobile labs or weapons disguised as industry, we are finding ... that the capabilities were even more dispersed and disguised than we had thought,

Stephen Hawking

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

John Casson

We've got three years of film to watch on him, so we'll be looking at that and figuring out things that we can try on him, ... You have to keep an eye on him wherever he goes. We'll try to disguise a few things up front, how many guys we're rushing, things like that. It's all a matter of keeping him guessing.

Gamaliel Bradford

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

Steven Gerrard

Statistics don't lie. I'm not going to disguise the fact that we need a poacher. The problem we have got is obvious.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Judy Cornett

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Pema Chodron

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

Lord of

My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring

John Lemme

Live each day as if it's a precious Gift, because it is.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat, there would be nothing sad about time being limited.

Alanis Morissette

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Alan Arkin

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Cary Grant

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Lance Armstrong

Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

Aimee Carter

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Billy Joel

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

David B. Coe

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be...

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.