Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Soule

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Stross

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Charles Spurgeon

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Alan Watts

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

Alan Watts

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Andrew Kreisberg

He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing?

Joel Klein

In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse

Malcolm Forbes

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

Hugo Chavez

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

John Mayer

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

John Kasich

Somebody tells me no, they`re not going to keep telling me no, because I`m going to bother them to the point where it`s a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.

Mitt Romney

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

David Duchovny

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

Chester Brown

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

Chelsea Gray

We're so close. It's just a matter of finishing two more (Valley) games.

Todd Hays

Unfortunately it didn't go as I'd hoped. But fortunately I know there's a lot worse things in life than not finishing the Olympic Games with a medal.

Bill Taylor

We're in the transition between just finishing up a major harvest and waiting for some to grow here.

Roberta Crawford

We're finishing the story for my mother and father.

Daniel H. Pink

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

Jon Constant

We didn't do a good job of finishing the game. It was a tough loss for us, but I think that we learned from it. We've got to finish.

David Wright

We're not going out there and setting our goals to try and knock teams out of the playoffs. We're trying to just make sure to finishing on a strong note that can springboard us into next year.