Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Charles Stanley

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Charles Spurgeon

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Alan Moore

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker

Al Jarreau

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

Chloe Grace Moretz

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

Chinua Achebe

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Charles Caleb Colton

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Edward Gibbon

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Belle Boyd

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

Jamal Lewis

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

Thomas Middleditch

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Charles Sturt

We had been unable to persuade any of the natives of Wellington Valley to accompany us as guides, on our leaving that settlement.

Justice Francis

Simply put, given the enormity of the rights and responsibilities that accompany marriage, Massachusetts has a rational and substantial interest in ensuring that the marriages it creates will be recognized as valid outside its borders.

Source Unknown

Love and respect do not automatically accompany a position of leadership. They must be earned.

Melissa Wagoner

Sen. Kennedy hopes we have a national policy in place soon. But in the interim, he feels it's understandable why members of the committee would want to look at navigational safety issues that accompany these kinds of projects.

Dinaw Mengestu

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Chris Patten

Most worrying for me in China is the stoking up of nationalist sentiment as an alternative to, I think, moral fervor that used to accompany Communism. I hope that the Chinese authorities will be careful about that.

Compay Segundo

One time in Spain I was playing and a trumpeter got up to accompany my quartet and people covered their ears. They better rectify that.

Mayor Slifka

Given the anticipated public interest we know will accompany these applications, we have set other dates aside for further public hearings. We want to make sure we give the public an opportunity to speak.