Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Lint

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

Charles Caleb Colton

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

Charles Caleb Colton

That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

Charles Stanley

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Charles Spurgeon

I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

Charles Spurgeon

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.

Alan Ball

Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

Alan Paton

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

Al Pacino

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Andrew Coates

Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth.

Kevin Baines

Venus has a lot of lessons to teach the Earth about how things could go awry.

Allan Paull

Ultimately we hope to be able to use it to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit.

David Mitchell

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

David Sze

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

David Suzuki

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

Gayle Falkenthal

Where there is a need we will fill it.

Guy Finley

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

Gary Dunn

We always have a lot of new guys come out for the team, but the new guys have a lot of potential. Before, we just had people who filled the spots.

Yoshinori Ohno

We want to promote understanding and fill in the gaps today or tomorrow.

David Nicholas

We have secured one cargo in January, two in February. We are looking to fill one of our two slots in March. That's the arrangement so far.

Mark Wigley

We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

Natalie Massenet

When you see an item like that, you have to have it because it is filling a void. It is something you didn't know you wanted. It can be quite emotional.

Arndt Ellinghorst

Until now, the Germans thought, 'We can make it with diesel.' They saw hybrid as a technology that was just filling a gap. Now they're seeing that, particularly in the U.S., they're missing a market.

Brene Brown

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Bryan Adams

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Chris Lofton

We've got heart. We don't back down from nobody. We're going to come at you for 40 minutes and get after you, and that's just how it is.

Melissa Hughes

When I was in the play this summer, and Cody wasn't, we had about 30 minutes together each day.

Malorie Blackman

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

Scott Gardiner

We're going to go after them by doing the same things we've talked about all year. And that's tightening up in our own zone, opening it up in the offensive zone like we have been the past month or so, and 60 minutes of effort.

Carnie Wilson

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

Brian Eno

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

Pamela Gainey

She's having to play a lot of minutes even with that hand.

Dave Pelzer

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Michael Robotham

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Jeff Bowden

If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't be here.

Sean Sommeran

I think it's worth it. These days, it's a war.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Brandon Routh

You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film.

Blake Lively

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

Yogi Berra

Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't go to yours

E. Hurley

To the paparazzi: Why don't you all go and f*** yourselves up the a*se.