Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Frank Hadden

We want to try and pinch some of their ball. Nathan has a long term commitment to playing for Scotland.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

David Mixner

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

Ellen Smith

The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation.

Paul Jensen

unprofessional conduct not related to the quality of patient care.

Leon Cubillas

We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.

Doug Mosier

We're making criminal enterprises look to different means to conduct their business. We see it as a desperation move.

B. F. Skinner

We respect the prerogative of debate organizers to conduct the debate sponsors as they see fit. We would welcome Russ Potts if the organizers wanted to invite him.

Sheriff Norman

We're so fortunate that we can now conduct an investigation into how this thing got going rather than have to explain to the victims' family members why something like this could have happened. I don't know what we would have done if something like this had really happened.

Joshua Bell

So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing.

Ross Perot

Should a person who's the most powerful person in the world conduct his personal life in such a way that would be a poor example to our children?

Howard Friedman

Short-term suspensions for egregious conduct create a serious problem. It sends the wrong message to officers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.

Niall Ferguson

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

Samuel Butler

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.

Robert Rainy

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

Bodhidharma

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Blaise Pascal

According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Ben Jonson

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Bible Bible

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.

Samuel Butler

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.

David A. Bednar

As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

John H. Reagan

The doctrines of his party, are that negro slavery, as it exists with us, is religiously, morally, socially, and politically wrong.

Darren Shan

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Bible Bible

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Nicolas Chamfort

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Matt Maldre

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Aleister Crowley

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

Bible Bible

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Gustavo Kuerten

I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.

Terri Morrison

I feel they're spending money foolishly on a lot of different issues.

David Hume

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

Michael Shamberg

We're not doing the Towering Inferno - Titanic version.

Aristotle

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Rowan Atkinson

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.

Victor Munoz

On paper we are inferior to Real and to say anything else would be ridiculous.

Bhagavad Gita

One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. One who does the work ordained by one's inherent nature incurs no sin.

Alexander Crummell

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Anders Zorn

Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

Alvin Ailey

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

Charles Dickens

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Charles Dickens

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

Charles Dickens

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

Charles Dickens

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

Charles Dickens

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

Charles Dickens

Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

Camille Paglia

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Caitlin Moran

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

Beyonce Knowles

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Cheri Huber

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Bob Phillips

The person who knows everything has the most to learn.

Demi Moore

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

David Shore

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Catherine the Great

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

August Strindberg

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Bertrand Russell

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.