Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

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

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Thomas Campbell

Ye are brothers, ye are men, / And we conquer but to save.

Tom McMillan

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Dave Chappelle

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

Charles Eastman

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Guy Laliberte

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

Edmund Burke

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Moshe Sharett

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

Pierre Corneille

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Bram Stoker

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Ned Yost

Looks are deceiving at times. Sometimes, they're not.

Bible Bible

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

Dustin Lanz

He was our go-to guy. He was the main focus and with someone so dominant, we had to get it to him. He went by guys who were slower, and he was pretty much a power guy. He's just super-athletic - it's deceiving how quick he is.

Lois Perrin

From the outside, it looks fine. It's strikingly gorgeous. But that's what is deceiving about it.

Aesop

Appearances are deceiving.

Agatha Christie

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Jim Nantz

That's going to be a deceiving final -- a 25-point swing over the final 11 minutes. The Great Danes were great, indeed, for about 30 minutes.