Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Charlie Chaplin

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charles Caleb Colton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Charles Spurgeon

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

David Dinkins

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

David Brooks

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

Barry Bonds

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Barry Bonds

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

Barry Bonds

I like to be against the odds.

Matisyahu

There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit.

Gary Urton

We hypothesize that the arrangement of three figure-eight knots at the start of these khipu represented the place identifier, or toponym, Puruchuco,

Jeff Tittel

It's an important first step. Without it, the red knots could go the way of the passenger pigeon.

Ted Shackelford

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

Rumi

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Kimberly Nelson

One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details.

Joe Horn

One hundred and 55 percent, definitely, ... Unless something ungodly happens.

Kevin Kwan

I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.

Trey Anastasio

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Stephen Colbert

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Warren Ellis

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.