Famous Quotes & Sayings

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Monk Frost

Only puppets react to the string drawn by the wealthy.

Christopher Fowler

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

Leon Kass

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

Steve Bruce

He is going to have an X-ray but it is not looking very clever.

Winston Churchill

When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Bill Cosby

Is the glass half full, or half empty?It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Iveta Benesova

She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.

Robert Kazinsky

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Warren Farrell

Men are not human beings,they are human doings

Ivonne Sanchez

Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul

Tom DeLay

medical research predicated on the destruction of human embryos.

John Kricfalusi

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Lydon

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

Felipe Alou

If they did it with Jackie Robinson already, they should do that for the Latin American players. And who's better than Roberto? ... No one is better than him.

Willie Mays

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

Cheech Marin

As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'

Pierre Salinger

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Lydia Leonard

I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.

Lynda Resnick

Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is.

Nate Cleveland

Liz and Jackie give stability to the team in two important areas. Liz is solid in the back and Jackie really leads our attack.

Hugh Campbell

It would have invalidated making the team if Jackie Parker wasn't on the team

Rain

I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

Richard P. Feynman

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Ian Mckellen

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Toshihiko Fukui

Second-quarter GDP was revised upwards, representing the well-balanced nature of the recovery in Japan's economy,

J. Taylor

Now, we're going to look at see what was the nature of the service disruption.

Edgar Allan Poe

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Larry Jones

Me and my wife are planning a 10-day vacation soon.

Ray Richmond

My 17-year-old son is planning to see the 6:00 p.m. screening on Thursday in a suit and tie, ... He said he's planning to go to another screening immediately after...He wants to see the movie twice on the same night.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Dorothy Teeter

The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer.

Sue Wilson

I did some planning over the summer, ... and I managed to do some relaxing.

Edward Zander

We are planning some more wild products in 2006.

Patrick Leahy

We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,

Sergei Fedorov

I can't really predict anything. I'd like to think day-to-day.

Irwin Redlener

I wouldn't be too quick to predict how this is going to turn out,

Arthur Miller

I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has

Denis Villeneuve

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

Elizabeth Banks

One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.

Jonathan Overpeck

What we didn't predict is that it would be so dramatic.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Dick Jauron

I don't think it makes any sense for me to predict where anything's going. We all know things are not predictable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not go over the old ground, let us rather prepare for what is to come

Paul Reid

One quarterback works from the I-formation and the other works out of the T-formation. So, right now, we have to prepare for both.

Mike Leavitt

No one in the world is ready for it, ... But we're more ready today than we were yesterday. And we'll be more prepared tomorrow than we are today.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Seth Greenberg

I don't think anything in my training has prepared me for this season. I'm not sure there's ever been another season like this. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Senator Kerry

If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan.

Deepak Chopra

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

Melaney Arnold

We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Jim Fuller

Megan was also another one that kind of got run to death.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Jerome Groover

We had been working with them all summer. Mostly, we wanted to work on their speed. They know what they need to run. They have to run a 14.5 if they think they are going to state.

Peter Krause

I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Charles Spurgeon

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

Charles Portis

Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Olson

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

Diane Keaton

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

Dennis Prager

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

Denis Diderot

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Edgar Allan Poe

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

Edgar Allan Poe

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.