Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Charles Dickens

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Alan Patricof

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Alan Paton

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Al Oerter

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Akio Morita

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

David Giuntoli

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Bryan Magee

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Bill Johnson

The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

Bill Johnson

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Walt Whitman

I and this mystery, here we stand.

Brennan Manning

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

Nancy Gordon

She was a good mother to her kids. Right now, we're trying to figure out how to pay for her burial because she did not have any kind of insurance.

Seneca

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial

Joshua Slocum

Green burial isn't about doing extra things. It's about what not to do.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Mike Dooley

The president is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site,

Mike Dooley

The president (Harrison) is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site,

Melina Smith

Right now we just want to give her a proper burial and put her to rest.

Elliott Schlang

They've all diversified into cremation products, trying to lose the burial business to themselves.