Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sir Simon

Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.

Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

Dave Reichert

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.

Isabella Bird

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

Kate Atkinson

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

Rig Veda

Knowledge makes capable of earning knowledge. It inspires us to perform actions and as a result one acquires desired wealth.

Mark Pagel

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Joanna Stevens

There is going to be an enormous integration challenge for any company that acquires AOL.

Burleigh Grimes

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

Clare Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

Bhagavad Gita

One attains the highest perfection by devotion to one's natural work. Listen to Me how one attains perfection while engaged in natural work.

Bhagavad Gita

One attains the eternal imperishable abode by My grace, even while doing all duties, just by taking refuge in Me.

Bhagavad Gita

One attains peace in whose mind all desires enter without creating any disturbance, as river waters enter the full ocean without creating a disturbance. One who desires material objects is never peaceful.

Bhagavad Gita

No one attains perfection by merely giving up work.

Sathya Baba

One who is full of love attains The states of Oneness with Him.

Bhagavad Gita

One who finds happiness with the Self, who rejoices the Self within, and who is illuminated by the Self-knowledge; such a yogi attains supreme nirvana.

Granth Sahib

One who believes in the Name of the Infinite Lord, attains the Court of the Lord. I humbly bow to the Creator Lord; I am a minstrel singing His Praises.

Bhagavad Gita

One who abandons all desires and becomes free from longing and the feeling of 'I' and 'my' attains peace.

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

Karen Hughes

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Denis Hayes

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Dean Koontz

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Rob Sheffield

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rig Veda

One should respect his motherland, his culture and his mother tongue because they are givers of happiness.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Pamela Satran

Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

Dennis Prager

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

Edgar Mitchell

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

Leonard Mlodinow

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

Dominic West

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

Gunther Grass

Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people.

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,'

Charles Spurgeon

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Charles R. Swindoll

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

Demosthenes

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Denis Diderot

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Elbert Hubbard

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Eduardo Galeano

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Albert Schweitzer

The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

J. Taylor

Several of the smart bettors were happy to be on.

Unknown

May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.

Unknown

May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold— And at the end of all your rainbows may you find a pot of gold.

Mitt Romney

No one can be happy with the kind of response which we've seen in New Orleans.

Retief Goosen

Obviously there's a long way to go still but I'm very happy to start off like this. You can't win the tournament in the first round so I'm just going to keep playing well and see what happens.

Chris Evert

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher. Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter.... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

Thomas Jefferson

Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language

Shlomo Avineri

Sharon, ... has learned the language of the possible.

Mike Mansfield

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

Dennis Potter

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Dennis Ritchie

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Bart Stupak

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

Elizabeth Bowen

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ...

Orlando Bloom

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

Jacques Rogge

show us that sport unites by overriding national, political, religious and language barriers.

Linda Hall

She's respectful and does what she's supposed to do.

Callie Khouri

I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

Andy Enright

He was pretty nice. He was always respectful of everyone.

Corey Dillon

He was very respectful and said all the right things.

Bryce Harper

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

Sandra Sanchez

We want to do it in a respectful manner.

Derek Fisher

That's the type of personality he has. But he does it in a way that's respectful of his teammates. He's never trying to show someone up.

Mark Twain

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Mike Carey

Human beings take social stances, and if you’re respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you’re going to do and why you’re going to do it.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.