Famous Quotes & Sayings

Atharva Veda

Sickness afflicts those who commit sins; God Himself sits as the Judge.

Jules Goncourt

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

Henry Cabot Lodge

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

Tom Paulin

Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.

quran quran

And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves.

Raghuram Rajan

Europe's citizens do not seem convinced that the bitter medicine of continued structural reforms will cure the stasis that afflicts much of the Continent. It is a failure of politics that people have not come to see that the more they want to retain the attractive European way of life, the more the way they work will have to change.

quran

To those whose hearts tremble when Allah is mentioned, and those who are patient under that which afflicts them, and those who keep up prayer, and spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them. (The Pilgrimage 22.35)

Alan Watts

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

David Brin

Change is the very fabric of our time.

Denis Waitley

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Arundhati Roy

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Anne Stillman

We want to preserve as much of the historic fabric as is possible.

Ralph Lauren

The fabrics, whether it be hand-painted prints at the end, or whether it be new knits and stretch fabrics ... sort of make the whole world.

Charles Colson

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

John Novak

It is a natural next step in the process. (Collins & Aikman) has made some ill-timed investments over the years and it should help those players left in the fabrics industry.

Tasnim Aslam

It is a fabricated story and motivated by vicious intentions.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Tomas Borge

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Lorde

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

E. O. Wilson

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

Edward Zwick

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Barry Hannah

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Guan Yi

We really have no idea what is going on now in southern China.