Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Always winter but never Christmas.

Bruce Johnson

We want everyone to understand that this effort didn't end at Christmas. Our troops need to know someone's thinking about them.

Alan K. Simpson

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles Dickens

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.

Reuven Rivlin

We have no say in anything. What will we do if the Palestinians declare a state? How can we even stop them?

Jane Lowe

We have had the extremes of kids walking out of mediation hugging and kissing to those who just declare a truce and then everything in between.

Guy Hohenhaus

We're looking for an exit, at what point in time do we declare this over.

Laura DiDio

Security is an ongoing battle. Microsoft can never declare victory. But clearly, Microsoft has made great strides hardening the OS.

Lyndon Johnson

Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope, some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. This administration declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Ely Culbertson

Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare a peace upon the world, and win it

Loic Fauchon

Let us declare the right to water, without ambiguity, as an essential element of human dignity.

Marcus Aurelius

Philo declares he never dines at home, and that is no exaggeration: He has no place whereat to dine in Rome, Unless he hooks an invitation

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.

Carol Vorderman

All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

Carlos Mencia

And for all of you at home, you are all welcome to visit my store. You are also welcome to park off you motherparking parks, and go park yourself. But remember, don't park in a handicapped spot.

C. S. Lewis

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Steve Squyres

We have no idea yet how widespread Home Plate-like material may be. We have not seen anything like this before, but it doesn't mean there isn't more stuff out there.

Robin Cook

We want peace, but it must be a peace that makes Kosovo safe for the refugees to go home

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

Alan Shearer

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

Alan K. Simpson

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Tomas Borge

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

David H. Murdock

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

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Tom Hamilton

We have no on-site parking for visitors, family, etc. This is a seniors building. Many of our visitors are seniors and have trouble walking 100 yards.

Jennifer Granholm

Most of these people were rescued from rooftops and parking lots, ... Most of them spent part of the day (Monday) in a rescue helicopter.

P. J. Harvey

My understanding is it is more aesthetically pleasing as a parking lot.

Gifford Miller

New Yorkers are getting killed with parking ticket after parking ticket.

Bob Quinn

Now the rails have become a parking lot. That's one step better than having it taken out. But only one step.

Tim Smith

I?d like to get this person ID?d. I want to find out what they were doing in a parking garage.

Chris Schneiter

We don't have any parking meters that reset.

Evelyn Smith

Our street has become a parking lot. That's what it is.

Gary Johnson

I think it's a reasonable plan. But some people just don't want parking lots.

Colin Williams

I live just down the street, and we're going to use some of these to pave the driveway,

Rob Morosi

We're preparing to shift traffic from eastbound M-14 to the westbound lanes so we can rebuild the eastbound side, but there are problems with the pavement that have to be addressed first.

Sally Ride

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

Andy Goldsworthy

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

Leon Trotsky

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

Jeremy Piven

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Ari Kelman

Before there were paved roads or railroads or airplanes or the Internet, there was the Mississippi running down to New Orleans.

Moira Kelly

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

Terry Pratchett

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Carol Moseley Braun

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

Carol Vorderman

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

Carlos Castaneda

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Carlos Castaneda

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.