Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert A. Simon

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

Edward Gibbon

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

Edward Snowden

If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.

Edward Gibbon

Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

Benjamin Hoff

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Edgar Allan Poe

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Aristotle

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Peter Firstbrook

Many users will now delete an e-mail attachment that seems suspicious rather than open it up, so it has become more difficult for viruses to spread quickly.

Deepak Chopra

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities

Tony Furtado

When I was a little kid, everything was so new and interesting and so easy to just play the instrument. There were no boundaries because I didn't know any better.

Lisa Cholodenko

Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted.

Lee Brand

There are certain boundaries you do not cross, and I saw her crossing those boundaries.

Tony Blair

There are bound to be disagreements over trade, partly because of the very strength of China's economic performance.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

Susie Wiles

Where the boundaries aren't clear, we're delineating those. It's a clean-up and a house keeping exercise.

Gunter Grass

Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.

Greg Clarke

We have no other risk-projects that aren't within the bounds of normal forecasting errors.

George Ross

Until the rule can be proven improper he should be bound to it.

Mark Lee

We knew they'd be very physical, very aggressive. They didn't do anything that we didn't prepare for. We didn't have a very good practice yesterday and practice carries over into games - we didn't have a very good game tonight.

Mike Marsden

Until you need the service, you don't understand and the implication of someone that's in need of help carries a long response time. When people realize it and understand it, I want to convey that message.

Matt Mullenweg

There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.

Michael Phelps

When we have a home crowd like this and the excitement that we have, it carries us a long way, ... We knew it was going to be tough. The Aussies weren't going to roll over and let us dominate. That's how they are, and how they've always been.

Ken Wilber

We're going to do something special for him, and we'll probably name a street after him. We're all so proud of Corey. He carries himself so well, in a Southern gentleman type of way.

Jack White

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

Chris Taylor

She speaks quietly and carries a big stick.

Dick Bryant

When you can feel good about yourself, it carries over into everyday life. If you can look in the mirror and like yourself, that's the greatest feeling in the world.

Crystal Davis

She you know, carries herself a little higher, she smiles a little bigger, it's pleasing to see, it's very rewarding.

Mike Stephenson

Since January 1, we've found four dead crows that tested positive for West Nile.

Gerard Daffy

We took $10,000 on the Crows at $4.50, another $5000 at $4.30, and a steady stream of money since has forced them into $4.20 now.

Irish Sayings

As the old cock crows the young cock learns

Chuck D.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

David McLean

I can tell you that we're not planning any price drops on Xbox 360 this year at all. The product doesn't need it.

Nick Ferguson

I think it's the fact that the guy's so confident. He's the guy that all the cheerleaders want to be with -- he's one of those guys. If he was a drink, he'd be some fine cognac because that's how smooth he is. The way he drops back and reads, the way he passes the ball. He plays very poised -- doesn't seem to let anything rattle him even if you pressure him.

Andy Reid

It gets pointed at McMahon, but it's not all him. You can't have six or seven drops like we did Saturday.

James Farrior

He had a lot of drops today. I don't know what it was. Maybe Joey got in his head. His game plan all week was to try to get in Stevens' head and I think he might have done that.

Kevin Kinel

Our focus has been on the state meet. I feel pretty good about going down to state. We'll have time drops there.

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Alan Vituli

Sure it's a loss, but losses are funny things, when thing are going well, any piece that drops out of the equation seems like a loss. But things often work out.

Jay Greene

It does give us a perspective that we didn't have, which is the perspective of the student who drops out.

Phil Durocher

The potential for carp fishing is considerable. We need to be prepared in Texas if the sport takes off.

Eddie Irvine

Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

David Walker

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

Bobby Flay

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

Bobby Jindal

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

Demetri Martin

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

Michael Matthews

We want fish that are into it. Older, larger fish aren't as active.

Charlie Sheen

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

Kevin McLaughlin

With the large number of boating and fishing enthusiasts in this area, we thought it was time for Philadelphia to host a spectacular show like the one we're planning.

Charles Dickens

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

Charles Dickens

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

Charles Dickens

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

Charles Dickens

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Charles Stuart Calverley

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

Alanis Morissette

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Chris Cleave

There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.

Ama Dwimoh

We know who did it. We know what happened. Now we need to hold them accountable - and we will.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

Chelsey Brown

I think this kite thing is really special.

Augusten Burroughs

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

Alan Cohen

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

David Benioff

I've never flown a kite.

Kate Bush

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Horace

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

Leonard Cohen

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Dan McTeague

We tried everything we could to try to get him liberated well before the end of the 12-year sentence which he had received.

Roger Vadim

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.

Eli Khamarov

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Calvin Klein

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

Paul Wolfowitz

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

Karl Barth

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

Primo Levi

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Chris Brown

You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Angela Merkel

We still need to push back that moment where I'd say I'm happy, ... But I'm very satisfied.

David Hockney

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Antonin Artaud

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Billy Graham

We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever.

C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Thomas Hood

For one of the pleasures of having a rout, / Is the pleasure of having it over.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Chogyam Trungpa

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Arthur Rimbaud

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Natsuki Takaya

We shall go wild with fireworks...And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big

Denise Levertov

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

Denis Leary

I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.

Earl Hamner, Jr.

A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

Edgar Lee Masters

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Boyle Roche

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ben Harper

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Bill Paxton

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

Dean Koontz

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Giambattista Vico

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Henry Rollins

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Laurieann Gibson

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

Julie Burchill

Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause

Martin Amis

The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.

Rachel Gibson

I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.

Gail Porter

I'm always weeping at something or other.

Rebecca West

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

Miyamoto Musashi

I dreamt of worldly success once.

Wayne Dyer

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

Charles de Gaulle

I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

Alan Watts

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

Al Pacino

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

David A. Siegel

I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected.

Darren Shan

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

David McCullough

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

David Nalbandian

No one is friends with Hewitt and he does not worry me at all.

Carolina Herrera

Even if it doesn't fit the woman, like, let's say a very short skirt, and the woman doesn't have the legs or the height to wear the skirt, but she has to wear it because it's fashionable. Don't do it! If it doesn't look good on you, don't worry about it.

Bill Parcells

Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?