Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shimon Peres

We were at the point where all of us could have lost control of the situation, and the bloodshed reached an unbelievable proportion. ... we pray for a day without funerals.

Alan Shearer

I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.

Charlotte Bronte

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charles Dickens

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

Charles Caleb Colton

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Richard Eastman

The problem with the former cutoff of 140 is that by the time people were diagnosed with diabetes, about 20 percent already had complications, ... We know that the risk goes up sharply for those complications when the blood sugar gets to be about 126.

Yaron Ezrahi

The real change is that for the first time we have three people in the leading parties ... and none have the reputation or the record of a heroic military general or a bloody ruthless fighter.

Ehud Barak

The real cause is Arafat, ... paid with the blood of his people.

Isotonu Achor

There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.

Ben Jonson

She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.

Edgar Allan Poe

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

Ovid

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Serena Williams

A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough.

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

Henry Adams

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

John Barrymore

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

Sharon Scott

We want 'em to sing with us. We want 'em to sing out.

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Charlotte Bronte

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Charlie Chaplin

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

Charlie Chaplin

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles Spurgeon

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Charles Spurgeon

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.