Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

Carlos Castaneda

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

Savannah Cowley

We have no fear we won't have enough snow to stay open through Memorial Day Weekend, and there's always the possibility we'll open for the Fourth of July. Right now the possibilities are endless.

Agnes de Mille

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

Charles Caleb Colton

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.

Charles Caleb Colton

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Larraine Segil

There is a lot of fear when an acquisition takes place. Most people are fiddling around with their resumes on their computers.

Carol P. Christ

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

Charles Stewart Parnell

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Dave Chappelle

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

Jamie Zawinski

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

Chinua Achebe

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require? Will the doctors, who are leaving in droves, coming to America, going to everywhere in the world - Saudi Arabia - how many of them will be there? The universities have almost completely lost their faculties and are hardly ever in session, shut down for one reason or another.

Dick Blasy

We're still leaving way too many runners in scoring position. We're looking for something perfect (at the plate), and we're getting called out way too many times. That's something that we're working on and we will get better at.

Cedric Richmond

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Daniel Gilbert

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed...

Tom Waits

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

Joe Browne

When we got to the patient, the dog was a good 50 yards away. He kept creeping up and barking at the firetruck.

Deborah Harkness

Her bark is worse than her bite.

Isabella Bird

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.

Ken Parker

Buddy is really going to enjoy this, because he's so inquisitive, ... He'll watch TV and bark at it.

Fadel Gheit

Basically, before the hurricane, they went home Friday thinking this thing is going to fizzle out, it's going to bark but it's not going to bite,

Diane Feinstein

I don't know what tree we're barking up,

Bill Plympton

My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.

Dana Johnson

This reminds me of the famous Sherlock Holmes mystery, where the dog that didn't bark was the key. It was what Greenspan didn't say more than what he did say that got the market excited. People were ready to hear a more upbeat reading on the economy than he gave.