Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

David Mitchell

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Cai Guo-Qiang

For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature- because the boat has sunk- or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.

Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Bruce Wilkinson

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

Bryan Davis

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Lucas Till

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Louis Stokes

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

David Milne

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Lucas Till

I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Ivan Perez

We struggled in the clutch to make plays. I would say it's hard to play away from home in front of 6,000 people yelling at you. They got into us.

Tim Connolly

We're in Canada, so I might get to see it on TV. We get a clutch goal when we need it, and that's what happened.

Jeff Kane

Ultimately, our defense let us down the entire week, and we were unable to generate a lot of offense or come up with clutch hits.

Shanna Zolman

She's a clutch player. She doesn't get rattled.

John Walsh

She is the clutch hitter for us. She creates havoc with her speed. She's got some power, too. So when she's on, she's a real dangerous player.

Richard Jefferson

Mike is such a great player, such a clutch player. I joke with him, because he doesn't jump very high and he's not very fast, yet he's still one of the most effective guys in the NBA because he's so intelligent. He knows the game, and he knows what it takes to get it done.

Cody Provenzano

This win was huge. It means the world to us. Winning a game like this shows how clutch we were today.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Katie Gearlds

She thrives under pressure. What you've seen this year is what she showed us at Tennessee. The more pressure, the better she's going to play. She's hit so many clutch shots for us this year.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

C. J. Cherryh

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Suresh Kalmadi

The performances will give a glimpse of the rich culture and heritage of India as the next hosts of the Games.

Patrick Arnold

We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.

Gil Cates

There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Charles Stanley

Relationship is the difference between grace and law.

Alan Watts

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

Alan Watts

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Alan Moore

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Alan Moore

You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.

Alan Ball

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Al Neuharth

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Chris Christie

This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable.

Charles Dickens

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Caleb Colton

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Charles Caleb Colton

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Charles Caleb Colton

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

Charles Dickens

You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

Charles Dickens

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Gary Johnson

The other two saw what was going on and grabbed the hostage, the store owner who was the only person in the store at the time, and held him at gunpoint,

Lucien Smith

I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.

Dan Wheldon

When you think Danica grabbed the headlines, you wait until he starts. She'll be jealous of him.

Tom Freeman

We have to have a melody line. So if one of our sax players needs to stick with one part, maybe the trombone player will grab the melody from another score.

Jim Davis

We're more individualized but we depersonalize meal time. We tend to grab something and run.

Rodney Atkins

Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.

Sergey Galitsky

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.

John Irvine

She grabbed our daughter, and I looked frantically for my 5-year-old son, ... He was looking out to sea. He was mesmerized, hypnotized by the wall of water.

Noelle Kreykes

She didn't grab it and I could tell I could head it over her hands so I stuck my head out.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Kelly Green

We are always playing for something. We told our guys that we need to get better and that's what we did.

Jon Clark

We started out with a lot of expectations and we didn't meet some of those. The guys will always remember the last stand and will be proud of it.

Jason Treutelaar

We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to step up and knock down shots. When we get good, open looks, we need to make the shots, and we're not doing that right now.

Lute Olson

There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back.

Joe Becerra

There are some guys here who could play in the NBA.

Edward Atorino

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

Gary Player

When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Ben Wallace

That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Rachael Ray

She said the first rule is to be myself.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Ali Babacan

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

Anne Hutchinson

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Cully Donovan

We worked a lot on situations like that this year. They responded well.

Ann Plato

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

David Lynch

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.