Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Blaise Pascal

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Audie Murphy

I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.

Bill Bryson

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Azita Ghanizada

I learned how to speak English watching television.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Ludwig von Mises

If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

Dan Castellaneta

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

Christopher Walken

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Christopher Walken

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Bernie Ecclestone

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Bill Crawford

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that.

Ashley Tisdale

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Ashton Kutcher

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

Bill Vaughan

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

Charles Darwin

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Blaise Pascal

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

Aziz Ansari

What's cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn't be able to joke about in stand-up.

Alan Keyes

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.