Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Freeman Miller

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Seamus Heaney

But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.

Jonathan Gross

Work ethic is something that's conferred by example. Kids are much smarter than we give them credit for; it's about what they see.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

Eleanor Catton

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

Emily Dickinson

Superiority to fateIs difficult to learn.'Tis not conferred by anyBut possible to earn.

Sara Sheridan

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

Slash

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

Joe Jonas

Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Imelda May

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Alan Moore

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Alan Moore

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

David McCullough

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

Edward Hirsch

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edward Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Gary Carter

We're 20 years older, so it's not quite going to be the same.

Ambrose Bierce

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Michel de Montaigne

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Greg Evans

There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.

Dick Bartholdi

That was as satisfying a win as we've ever had here.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Chad Hurley

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

John Harrison

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

Dwyane Wade

You probably make about two out of every 10 or 12. That's why it's so satisfying when you make one.

Jeff Parker

It was very satisfying to see, ... but disappointing not to be part of it.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Paulo Coelho

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

Nhat Hanh

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Les Brown

Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You

Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Pete Carroll

He's been to the mountaintop, so to speak,

Source Unknown

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

Heath Ledger

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

Tom DeLay

advising the speaker and the leadership. I worked the votes, did it all.

Horace

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Harvey Kronberg

The speaker is weaker today than he was a week ago.

Teodoro Casino

This is unfortunate because the Speaker turned back on his words. He stabbed us on our backs.

Bernard Laporte

Our success comes from stability.

Klaus Kleinfeld

It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation,

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation.

Gabrielle Reece

I guess I crave stability.

Jose Manuel Barroso

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

Hawa Abdi

Women can build stability. We can make peace.

Jean-Claude Juncker

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

Frances Newton

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Gene Robinson

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

David Beckham

So it is going to put a lot of strain on my back.

Winston Churchill

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

Myrtle Reed

marriage is a great strain upon love.

Jon Lea

It just takes a lot of the stress and strain off the water supply.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.