Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nong Duc Manh

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have heard much of the phrase, ''peace and friendship.'' This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ''peace and friendship, in freedom.'' This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Hu Jintao

We both believe sustainable, healthy and stable development of Sino-US ties conforms to ... the common aspiration of our two peoples,

Hu Jintao

We're pleased with the recent sound development of Sino-US relations, ... We both believe it's the common aspiration of the two peoples to maintain sustained, healthy and stable development of bilateral ties.

Lee Siegel

Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

Alexandre Vinet

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

Uday Kotak

My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.

Tony Chukwueke

The government wants to meet its obligation to all the major downstream players that have committed a lot of money to downstream oil and gas, necessary to meet the aspiration that the president has already articulated.

Carre Otis

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

Carole Bouquet

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

Carole Bouquet

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.

Carol Leifer

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

Carlos Mencia

The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.

Carl Bernstein

John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

C. S. Lewis

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

C. S. Lewis

And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.

C. S. Lewis

Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

Pierre Berbizier

We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.

David Murangari

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Joe Nickel

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

Danial Shapiro

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

Tom Segev

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

James Morris

We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.

Atal Vajpayee

We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT,

Brigham Young

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Trevor Rabin

The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

Tony Williams

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

Hart Bochner

I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

Diane Labrosse

Port Symphonies is more of a composing project rather than a conducting project. The score is written in time, in seconds. The notes translate to ship horn on, then ship horn off.

Sivamani

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Alison Jackson

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Brian Ferneyhough

What effect these nine years have had or will have on my composing I really don't know - probably I'll be the last one to find out.

Andre Previn

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

Tom Hooper

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

Catherine Hardwicke

The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for women filmmakers generally,

Jacques Chirac

The real blackmail is what Chirac has done. I am very disappointed that Chirac has influenced and directed the meeting.

Bob Stein

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

Laila Robins

I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Claire Tomalin

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

James Chessen

She is so smart, it's scary. She's very much a theoretician, but it's always directed toward what's practical and possible.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Melanie Mayron

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Blaise Pascal

Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

Ellen Burstyn

So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'

Carolus Linnaeus

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them

W. G. Sebald

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

Antoine Rivarol

Women read each other at a single glance.

Jean Cocteau

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

Robert Frost

The sidelong glance is what you depend on.

Bible Bible

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Charlotte Bronte

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Carlos Castaneda

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Agnes Varda

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Brian Cox

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

Brian Eno

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

David Allen

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth. Mr. Rochester: Because you delight in sacrifice. Jane: Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value-to press my lips to what I love-to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I delight in sacrifice.

Charlotte Bronte

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Charles Caleb Colton

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Charles Studd

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Charles Stanley

[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

Charles Stanley

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

Charles Stanley

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Charles Stanley

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Charles Stanley

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Carol P. Christ

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.

Carlos Castaneda

The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. And finally your body now needs to come back to me to learn more. Let's say that your body knows that it is going to die, even though you never think about it. So I've been telling your body that I too am going to die and before I do I would like to show our body certain things, things which you cannot give to your body yourself... So let's say then that your body returns to me because I am its friend

Carl Friedrich Gauss

As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics.

Agnes Repplier

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

Alan Kay

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Charlie Crist

I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Charles Wagner

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Ella Henderson

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

Steve Ross

We think there are simply too many many instances of 'borrowing' for this to have been unintentional.

Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Alan King

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

Charlotte Bronte

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Charlotte Bronte

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Charles Dickens

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Charles Stross

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Charles Spurgeon

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Charles Spurgeon

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Mary Lyons

This unites all the children's names, ... This unites all the victims.

C. S. Lewis

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

C. S. Lewis

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

C. S. Lewis

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Djuna Barnes

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

Diane Wakoski

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

David Guetta

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Jane Austen

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars