Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Charles Simmons

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Charles Stanley

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Alan Autry

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.

Chris Christie

Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one.

Darren Shan

When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

David Rakoff

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.

Bryn Terfel

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

C. J. Mahaney

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

Jim Rice

We want to see it cleaned up. There?s no reason to have lead on the ground.

Edmund Daukoru

We've already played this gimmick, ... We want to play clean so we don't even raise the ceiling.

Lil Mama

Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn't care. I'm really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I'm really impressed by clean music.

Bob Newhart

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

Barry Bonds

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

Bertolt Brecht

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Carol Leifer

My stand-up act is very clean.

Martin Lee

We have to get all that cleaned out.

Charlie Parker

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Ken Salazar

There are two strong factors happening right now, ... Supply and demand are those factors. We have to really deal with the demand side of the issue, and I strongly encourage Americans to conserve more by driving less.

Gerard Houllier

We deserved to win this match. Even though Real Madrid had a lot of possession in the second half, we were able to conserve the score. It's a good start for us and for the fans.

Bob Taft

I encourage all Ohioans to conserve motor fuel use whenever possible until the state's supplies are fully restored,

Kim Brown

I always conserve energy. My husband likes to leave things on, but I go around and shut everything off, the lights we don't use in every room anyway.

Rick DeLisi

To continue to conserve on operating expenses, we are reducing the overall number of flights as well as service to these four markets.

Paul Jepson

Hopefully this highlights the need and desire to conserve whale species in general.

Catherine Rossi

If we each try to conserve gas, collectively we can reduce the demand for gas.

Steve McCormick

This really represents conservation in the 21st century. To conserve globally important natural habitat worldwide on a scale that will be meaningful, we have to contemplate human use." ()

Gloria Arroyo

While we conserve energy and seek cheaper, more stable sources of oil, we must at the same time nurse our foreign exchange reserves by increasing inflows and curbing dollar expenditures,

Carol Wotton

We want to try to educate them to the importance of reuse.

J. J. Johnson

We also try to work with local high schools to educate the students about the importance of proper footwear and training. More importantly, we try to educate their parents.

David Gore

We have a special focus on disadvantaged communities. We've never turned a student away. If young people wanted to study and were enthusiastic enough, we'd find a way to educate them.

Jenna Berry

We recommend parents come with their kids because some of videos are graphic. We are not trying to scare the youngsters, we just want them to be more educated so they can make better choices.

Jane Goodall

If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

Dyana Mason

We're growing in our efforts and abilities to work on multiple issues at once. Ultimately, we will prevail, but there are a lot of obstacles in the way. We need to educate people and elect more fair-minded representatives.

Kit Pfieffer

Yes it is our job to educate students but we can't educate students that are not totally with us.

Maria Brown

We had no idea so many people would actually go out on a reef. People need to be educated that they're stepping on living creatures.

Matt Gibson

Let's do what's right for the kids. Let's put them in the right situation and the teachers in the right situation to educate them.

Ray Lewis

We spoke out on the grass to a group of people, consoled them, let them know we understood this was a traumatic, life-changing situation. Some had tremendous reservations about relocating to a state they knew nothing about.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

Ricky Gervais

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Alexander Smith

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

William Rands

Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful waters round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest

John Steffensen

He knows all about it and said if you do, it is going to pain your body. Running on the grass is tough, so it was too much of a risk, particularly with the international season just starting.

Mike McBride

Having the stature that he has, you get a lot of people talking at him, but he doesn't react. Sooner or later, you got to get on the grass with him, and then he'll have you.

Troy Becker

I think that could take away some of the charm. Warming up on the infield grass was part of soaking up the environment.

Tim McGee

He got a taste of the grass on the other side. And I don't necessarily say the grass wasn't greener.

Bob Myers

He would mow for my mother. It saddened all of us.

Kay Johnson

People should know that they need to mow every two or three weeks.

Rick Anderson

Even if we could get sod now, we couldn't mow it for a week and it would look like a jungle.

Elliott McCullough

Once it was down, it was pretty easy. You just have to water it and mow it at specific times." ()

Rufus Wainwright

Mowing your lawn is against nature.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Brandon Sanderson

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Golshifteh Farahani

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Linus Roache

I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

Imelda May

I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I've never had a facial, and I don't get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself.

Randy Pausch

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Frank Richard Stockton

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Tim Anderson

I think that the stock's probably washed out for a while,

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Dave Barry

I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

David Stockman

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....