Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. F. K. Fisher

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

George Seaton

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

Huston Smith

All -isms end up in schisms.

Jim Shaw

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

Tibor Kalman

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

Charles Simonyi

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Charles Spurgeon

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

Charles Spurgeon

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Alan Parsons

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

Alan Alda

I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

Chris Colfer

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

Chogyam Trungpa

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

Chinua Achebe

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Elliot Perlman

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

Gustave Courbet

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

Stuart Scott

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Wallace Shawn

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.