Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

Albert Schweitzer

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

George Perkins

We're not cutting back to save the world, ... I'm going to need to figure out how to get along.

SJ Morrison

We're not cutting any services; what we're doing is redistributing services.

Robert H. Connelly

Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

Jalal Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Alafair Burke

Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Mike Doss

There are written and unwritten rules of etiquette for the gym.

Judith Martin

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

Peter Post

Etiquette is saying that it's really OK to be nice.

Mark James

I thought it not so much a question of Lehman's beliefs, more an indication of moral downfall. He has always regarded himself as someone who upheld the values of the game and its etiquette but on that day he was way off the mark, to the extent that I will never be able to look on him in the same light again.

Mark Greene

In cross-border deals, to me etiquette is not an 'edge' thing. It is a prerequisite to being effective.

Judith Martin

Gentle reader: Yes, the thing to do is to ignore it. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable

Emily Post

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

Howard Dean

Maine folks are just like Vermont people -- they're very independent. And that's a great place to start the turnaround,

Chuck Rosenberg

Let me be clear, we do not want to overstate the risks, we do not want to understate the risks, ... We need to get good information out to folks as soon as possible.

Steven Jones

So many folks just want to do their own things.

Cassandra Gash

My folks have worked without knowing whether they are going to get paid.

Zach Duke

My folks had an idea of what my value was. And they wanted to stick with it.

James Curtis

One of the things that's important to me is to help people, as opposed to just getting up there and being sort of a pontificate, omnipotent and all-powerful individual lecturing folks from on high, ... Curtis Court.

Louis Cataldie

My heart goes out to the folks here locally,

John Steinbeck

Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say.

Will Rogers

Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eating.

Mike Leavitt

If one thinks of the world as though it were a vast forest, if there is a spark in the forest and you are there to see it, you are able to simply snuff it out,

Robert Townsend

Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Larry Coker

We haven't done anything yet. All this does is raise the stakes. Makes the Wake Forest game that much more important.

Dawn Powell

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Bill Nye

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

John Curry

When you talk about all of these things and weave them together, for the first time, conservationists have something in which they can see the forest for the trees. It screams that it needs our attention.

William Shakespeare

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

John King

We've got to win at Green Forest on Thursday and then we'll have our hands full with Gentry.

Doug Hamilton

There aren't models of solar systems or mock rain forests or any other kinds of displays in the classrooms. If it is a subject they have always found to be difficult, they are going to be disinterested in what the teacher is talking about and be more interested in what's on the wall or what's on the ceiling.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Kevin Connell

So it's not like we're not moving the football.

Ken Starr

moving very quickly and we've made very significant progress.

Lennart Maack

Moving up is tough because no one is the favorite.

Ron Walters

None of those people who have made that policy are moving off the scene.

Leslie Nielsen

No, no, no, Mel is very much together as a director, always moving forward.

Jim Bianco

Now that yields are moving up, all these reasons have been shoved aside, and order in the universe has been restored.

Chris Crutcher

It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

Dick Vitale

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

Angela Johnson

See all us? We neighbors. We got to stick together.

Danish Proverb

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor

Jose Rivera

Neighbors come by and give us food. We have support.

Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Sharon Dias

I was starting to get headaches, and my neighbor upstairs, she said she was starting to get headaches. She was, like, sick for a week but she couldn't understand why. And me, neither.

Brother Lawrence

Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

John Galloway

We're having just a wee get-together with neighbors.

Bruce Springsteen

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

Chris Browning

we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Meg Mallon

I don't even look at it as a proper score.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Louis Post

The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Angela King

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

Ron Williams

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

Jason Rogers

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

Larry Hawkins

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.

Alexandra Adornetto

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mon cher, you are a simpleton. You really don't understand a thing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

William Ford

The only person who can understand a veteran is another veteran.

David Jenkins

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.