Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

B. B. King

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

B. F. Skinner

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

C. S. Lewis

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

Ron Perry

Our No. 1 enemy on this thing is the wind and the terrain we have here.

John Tortorella

Remember Good is the Enemy of Great? This year, we need to say that Great is the Enemy of Excellent.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your enemy's enemy is your friend

C. S. Lewis

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Cecil Beaton

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

Jason Sehorn

Kyle and I are loving it here, and it feels like we belong, ... In this league you never know when you'll be staring the enemy in the face -- and he's no longer the enemy.

Dennis Tarsi

Just the fact that we have one - that's like the enemy .

Duo Maxwell

I hate to say this, but you don't have the skill to be my enemy

Bible Bible

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Daniel Sullivan

He is suffering a lot of psychological trauma that he doesn't know he is going through.

Al Gore

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.