Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rainy

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

Havelock Ellis

Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos

Atharva Veda

Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes! No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open.

Robert Nardelli

makes it necessary to take actions to ensure our continued worldwide leadership.

Brian McClung

Major League Baseball wants to see a resolution to the stadium situation. They didn't discuss specific actions they might take. They're interested in seeing the ball move forward on a ballpark." ()

Sathya Baba

Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

Gustav Kuhn

Magicians seem to be able to carry out secret actions in front of their audience without being spotted. I'm interested in why people don't perceive those actions.

Tony Blair

Libya has stated that weapons of mass destruction are not the answer for Libya's defense, ... Libya's actions entitle it to rejoin the international community.

Dave Smith

Losses due to this virus will continue until effective actions are taken within cattle operations to prevent further transmission.

Sathya Baba

Let us perform heroic deeds by working together;

Yajur Veda

One should indulge only in such deeds that provides good- health and strength so that he can work for longer periods without getting tired.

Buddha

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Michael Morales

My deeds now are simple, for I'm a simple man. But (they're) honest .Ê.Ê. come from a sincere heart .Ê.Ê. I'm definitely not the same foolish misguided person I once was.

Michael Morales

My deeds now are simple, for I'm a simple man. But (they're) honest . . . come from a sincere heart . . . I'm definitely not the same foolish misguided person I once was.

Eliphas Levi

EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will

Edwin Arnold

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

Sam Veda

O Men! Look at the divine deeds of Vishnu; contemplate and then follow them.

Chris Sanders

I didn't want something like, 'Hey Stitch, let's go out and do good deeds today,'

Albert Schweitzer

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

Sathya Baba

Love is your life, your friend, your relative, your food and your everything. Heart that is filled with love can never be polluted. Love is nectarine. Once you fill it in your heart, the poison of evil will have no place in it.

Bob Dole

Look. See No Evil.... Hear No Evil.... and EVIL.

Johann Lavater

Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything

German Proverb

One does evil enough when one does nothing good

William Wordsworth

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.

David Vise

When you put something out there like 'Don't Be Evil,' you get held to a higher standard,

Marc Morial

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Cate Blanchett

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

Ludwig Borne

Let us have no care, but be glad of the approaching springtime of the peoples. Let us have no fear of the movement into the open.

Scottie Somers

Love allows you to dream. Fear allows you to pursue your dreams.

Madame de Stael

Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.

Todd Clark

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Jamie Woodruff

Scout was very fearful of people at first. He's come so far, I'm so proud of him.

Pat McDonnell

Mountain lions, I do not believe, have a healthy fear of man because they are not hunted.

Ron Gardenhire

Maybe we can put some fear in them, They have a single-digit lead (over Cleveland) now, so you know they're starting to feel the effects. And that's half the battle, to see how people handle things.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Kim Anderson

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Guenter Verheugen

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Grant Fairley

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

Don Johnson

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

Edward Teller

No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.

Otto Dix

I will either be famous or infamous.

Mike Sheffield

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

Gerhard Schroeder

One can never tell how long one will have to remain in office as caretaker,

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Deng Xiaoping

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Eleanor Clift

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Reed Baker

If a person is really sick, you don't want them in the office because you don't want the whole staff to go down.

Ed Miliband

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Dr. Paulos

No brace is perfect. No brace can prevent every injury, but they do help.

Amartya Sen

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.

Ed Parker

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

Dixie Lee Ray

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Abraham Lincoln

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Dick Cheney

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

Antonio Graves

We need to stick to the principles of our defense.

A. J. Liebling

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

Mary Foley

Worship here is very joyful. Our reputation is that of a very friendly, welcoming community.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Elizabeth Arden

Repetition makes reputation.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Charles Churchill

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Source Unknown

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.