Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zabian Dowdell

When they were tipping the ball around, I definitely thought something bad was going to happen. The angels were on our side.

Paul Wilkinson

We're looking at starting a neighborhood watch, ... I want to see what kind of help the Guardian Angels could give us.

Tom Ridge

Let us to do all we can to honor all those who rose up with resolve to defeat evil, who were released into the arms of angels to see the grateful face of God,

Thomas Pogge

If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

Jeffrey Berman

There are a lot of fallen angels and orphans out there.

Caridad Ramos

She was an angel, and all angels wear white. It is going to move so many people.

Andrew O'Hagan

Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

Nick Lachey

We're doing real well. I actually wanted to go to the Angels game but my wife's coming home tonight and I want be with her.

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Linus Torvalds

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

Uzo Aduba

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Eric Nylund

'Ghosts of Onyx' is the end of one chapter in the 'Halo' saga - and hopefully the start of an entirely new one!

Mark Geragos

We might as well open it up entirely and pollute the entire state.

Fred Wilpon

We're a sports service, not entirely a Mets service.

Terry Zwigoff

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.

Laura Spencer

Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

E. P. Thompson

Anything I said would be purely speculative at this point.

Brandon Gray

This is a real snub for moviegoers. This is not necessarily about quality -- this is purely political.

Mike Scioscia

If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Travis Smith

For some people, seeing it for the first time, it still works on just a purely visual level.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

David Novak

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

James Rubin

By any rational calculation, Milosevic comes out of this much, much weaker.

Brigitte Boisselier

I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

Van Jones

Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Charles Caleb Colton

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Spurgeon

God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

Al Stewart

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Akhenaton

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

Chris Colfer

I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly?

David Rakoff

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Byron Katie

All sadness is a tantrum.

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Samuel Schmid

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Edward Abbey

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

Dominique de Villepin

Accusations are useless.

Aaron Copland

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Warda Tahir

When together, an ocean. When separate, a useless drop.

Abu Bakr

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Aldo Leopold

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.