Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Djou

If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Charles Stross

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...

Chris Colfer

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

Chris Colfer

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

Chris Christie

It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality. And I understand why some people would then characterize that, especially people who don't like you, as bullying, but it's not that.

Sen. Siplin

We know what a gun and bullet does to a person's body, but we have no idea what a stun gun does.

Dianne Wiest

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

Darren Shan

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Lynn Meger

She was on a team at Haggard that wasn't a winning team. It wasn't the type of team where she could pass and they would finish, but she still did it. I saw her unselfishness.

Larry Greene

Haggard steps up to the plate and does what he needs to do.

Paul Handley

That is why Rowan Williams is looking so haggard nowadays.

David Allan Coe

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Thomas Jane

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Edmund Spenser

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

Anne Paulk

Leaving homosexuality was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Gene Collins

Sharon Wilson is one of the hardest workers in Ector County. It's a shame what has happened.

Kelly Anderson

She's probably improved the most. She's also probably our hardest worker. I thought that made her a lot better.

Pat Casey

She's one of the hardest hitters we have.

Audrie Pattenn

The plane tickets were $1,100 (each). Right now the hardest part is paying all of that off.

Edward Abbey

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

Bob Johnson

But the hawks actually hone in on the smoke.

Bob Beauprez

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

Lorenzen Wright

We wanted to take the Hawks to the playoffs. That was the thing we were talking about back then.

Kristin Wood

With hawks being in the news, there probably will be a lot of interest in them this year.

Holger Schmieding

There could have been a heated discussion, with the doves preventing the acceleration in the pace of rate hikes the hawks may have wanted.

Atharva Veda

Those that ride on chariots, and those that have no chariots, those that are mounted, and those that are not mounted, all those, after they have been slain, vultures and strong-winged hawks shall devour!

Jared Bernstein

This is what a healthy job market looks like ? we just haven't seen it for a long while, so it makes inflation hawks nervous.

Howard Hawks

There's action only if there is danger.

Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Arthur Brisbane

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

Denis Diderot

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Aleister Crowley

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

Andrei Sakharov

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.

David Gemmell

Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.

Sally Regenhard

This is savage and barbaric. The torture seems to be never-ending.

George Bernard Shaw

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

Kim Harrison

All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Anton Chekhov

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Karl Malone

After 18 years, for them to stoop to that kind of level, that's no class. And that's something I'll never forget.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.