Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Pearson

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

Marie de France

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

Harvey Pitt

Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on,

Francis Wacziarg

The fact that it is set in a phantasmagorical island somewhere in ancient Sri Lanka throws up immense possibilities to explore this cultural hybrid, whether it's through costumes, sets or simply because of the Hindu environment that forms the spine of the story.

Sarah Monette

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

Theodore William Richards

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

P. J. Harvey

We know what he can do now. It's been a long two days for Jake, but it was worth it.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Charles Spurgeon

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

Tom Daschle

very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.

Mark Joseph

Verbal assurances have been given that these principles would be adhered to.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Nicolas Roeg

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Edward Gorey

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

History! Read it and weep!

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Corbin Donaldson

West is the last (regular season) game. Hopefully, it (league race) comes down to that game. There's still hope.

Mike Heffernan

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

Gene Stephenson

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Paul Meeks

We're in a skittish market and the last thing you want to do is surprise investors.

Bill Trumbo

We're in a much-improved spot from a year ago. At this point last season, we were 0-4.

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shawan Robinson

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

Zinedine Zidane

Until my last breath. I won't say. It's too intense.

David Mackay

Oral presentations could also be important, with the wider skills of problem solving and working with others.

John Trudell

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.

Isobelle Carmody

First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.

John Winder

Two generations ago, all we had were oral steroids with a lot of side effects, ... But now, with inhaled steroids, there are still side effects, but nothing like they used to be.

Quentin Braun

Talented and versatile you say? Nope, just an oral bottom, an anal top and everything in between.

Maxine Hong Kingston

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

Mahmoud Othman

When he promises something, he'll get it done. If he can't do it, he won't promise it.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Bob Beauprez

We need to stay to the promise. Promises made need to be promises kept.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

National Press

Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

Kenneth Roth

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Anatoly Lebedko

If in Soviet times we had Stalinism, in Belarus today we have Lukashenko-ism.

Vladimir Putin

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

Joe Biden

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

Kate Bush

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Gloria Estefan

I strongly feel that we are all connected,

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Brad Cashman

I don't feel as strongly as I did before on that. Basically, I shouldn't have made that comment.

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

We are at the brink. Time is short.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

Liza Minnelli

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

What is past is prologue.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.