Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number.

Billy Beane

The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means.

Herb Vincent

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

Paul Kemp

There are some disasters beyond comprehension, and I think this is one of them.

Mark Kiesel

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

Josh Bolten

We're in a transitional period, and I want to make sure I have a team in place that is with us for, at a minimum, the remainder of this year and to some extent beyond that.

Matt Lawton

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Tom Rath

When you tell people at a convention that you're from New Hampshire, they tend to hold on to your hand a little longer and look into your eyes a little deeper, ... But beyond that, there was no overt, 'Are you with me if I go?'

Charles Caleb Colton

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We want the Persian Gulf to be a gulf of friendship and equality,

Charlie Trotter

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

Byron Katie

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

Byron Katie

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

Ulysses Grant

The people who had been in rebellion must necessarily come back into the Union, and be incorporated as an integral part of the nation. Naturally the nearer they were placed to equality with the people who had rebelled, the more reconciled they would

Kip Harris

When you've got to put together your hits and runs to equal your errors, you're not going to win many games in this league.

Lawrence Bender

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

Barney Frank

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Byron Katie

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

Bruno Walter

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Bela Lugosi

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Cameron Mackintosh

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Al Gini

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

Atharva Veda

O Nanak, serve the Lord forever; He is the treasure of glorious virtue.

Granth Sahib

Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet.

Oscar Lua

I think it let us know that we are that one unit, that one heartbeat. I think today is just another step into our glorious run.

Granth Sahib

Night and day, I sing Your Glorious Praises, God. I praise You, O my Beloved.

Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Ariel Winter

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Corky Palmer

For some reason, they're struggling a little bit, but they're a perennial regional team.

Justin King

The theme this year is to prove we're not a fluke. We're a perennial powerhouse, and we just want to keep on winning.

Michael Hillegas

I usually suggest a perennial and something that stays evergreen.

Rob Morrow

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

Jamar Butler

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

Efraim Levy

Signs in the marketplace are showing it is not having the punch that it once had,

Steve Yzerman

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Frank Luntz

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

Al Madrigal

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

Mike Lorello

He tends to remind me about that a lot. You just have to roll with the punches around here.

Jeff Smith

It was a real one-two punch of a storm.

Bruce Cutler

They figuratively punched him around until he said something.

Debra Messing

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'

Chris Neil

I can't repeat that in the paper. You've got to let him know you can't let him run around like that. I just told him, we play them one more time.

Jeff Bower

I will repeat that, again, he's been disciplined.

Ron Redmond

We've been there over a week, and we've made repeated requests.

Darren Clarke

I wish I could repeat it a little more often.

Judd Anderson

It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.

Alan Curtis

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, there was a lot of talk and a lot of commissions, but there was no real sustained action.

Charles Meyers

It's not that I'm cavalier, it's more frustration at being contacted repeatedly with the same complaint.

Milan Baros

The way things are going here, we could repeat the 1996 result. Only this time, we should win the trophy.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Edna Ferber

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Anton Chekhov

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

George Herbert

That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

Clint Eastwood

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

April Bloomfield

I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes.

Chelsea Cain

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

Mike McDermott

It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money,

Tupac Shakur

I'm a sucker for love

Helen Espy

It was an accident, a very tragic accident.

Randy Moore

You're going to find that it's nothing more than a tragic accident.

Samantha Morton

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Edwin Powell Hubble

The universe is unfolding as it should.

Cheryl Strayed

Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding

Ross Perot, Jr.

I got to see the American Dream unfold in my living room.

Paul Butler

The story that is about to unfold before you is long, complicated and chilling,

Wendy Cukier

And that has significant implications for the unfolding of all this.

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charles de Gaulle

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Lint

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.