Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly

William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.

Kate Christensen

Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

Sophie Hannah

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

William Carman

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, That lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

Lewis Thomas

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

Eric Idle

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Denise Lewis

I was more than contented with the international award, but before I had recovered from that shock I was up there again.

Li Ruoyu

I hope more sound, elated songs will be written, so that we can grow up happy and contented in a world of children's lovely songs.

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.

David Nicholson

My good fortune was that I married her.

Dikembe Mutombo

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

William Atwood

We were contacted by 'Wheel of Fortune' to see if we wanted to be part of the program.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

Tom Brokaw

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

Tom Golisano

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

Donald Trump

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

Isabella Rossellini

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.

Lauri Hakala

Let's just say I'm glad that I stayed and nothing this year is the same as last.

Jason Shirey

Leah threw a great ballgame. It's great to see her back to her normal self. I was glad to see that.

Mike Radke

Mitchell is a quality kid. I'm glad that we got to see him this early, because now we know what we have to work on. The next time Logan might possibly see him is at state.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single is 'Tonight' so I can show off my fun, young side, and what I want to do as an artist.

Doug Mientkiewicz

Me, my family, went through hell and back. It should have been handled differently. I'm glad it's over. I can put my (World Series) ring back on with pride now.

S. Walker

Maybe if I didn't have my injury, I wouldn't have studied as well in the classroom. I'm on pace to graduate right now. So I'm glad for that.

David Chaney

No one's more surprised than me. Very surprised. I hadn't trained very hard this winter. It (the course) wasn't too bad. I was glad the wind and the rain held off.

Mike Babcock

No part of me is glad to lose,

Proverb Proverbs

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Sathya Baba

Life is the car, your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

Martin Freeman

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.

Barry Bonds

Luckily, I'm still playing. Thank God I'm still out there.

Leo Veness

Lust is Love without the vital ingredient: Passion.

Stephen Baldwin

Luis Palau is the best-kept secret God ever had.

Corbin Bernsen

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Sathya Baba

Love God with all your heart,With all your soul

George Whitefield

Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready prepared to part with everything, when God shall require it at your hand.

Sam Altman

Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.

Dave Laird

Mitchell just keeps getting better and better and better. Two months ago that kid would've pinned him.

Jennifer Ring

(Nelson) keeps saying things are required by HAVA that are not.

James Callis

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

Donald Brashear

Maybe next time. If he keeps playing like that, maybe it will be worse.

Joel Madden

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

Michael Groves

When he keeps his shoulder down, he has a lot of pop. It's a matter of him remaining patient.

Todd Hays

If Brock keeps pushing the way he has, we're going to be just fine.

Charlie Bewley

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

Joni Pitkanen

Oh, yeah. He lets you know when you make mistakes. It was tough for me, but I didn't know what he was saying because I didn't know English.

Oscar Wilde

We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.

David Bailey

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Lena Headey

Working in film lets me travel, which is one of my passions. I like to visit remote places and see real people.

Mickey Neal

Yes. It may be small, it may be meaningless, but it lets me know what someone is thinking.

Larry Ellison

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

Larry Hackett

He lets people (in the prison) know what he is called.

Dave Duncan

He lets me do my thing. If there's something he sees that he wants done, then he lets me know that he wants it done and I try and get it done. I'm open-minded to what he has to say.

Bobby Abreu

He makes the players feel relaxed and lets them play the game. He doesn't put pressure on the players. Sometimes, if you make a mistake, a manager will push you. He just talks to you about it like nothing happened.

Wallace Wattles

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Dogen

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Alexandra Adornetto

I have church on Sunday.” “Of course you do.” “You’re welcome to come along.” “Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.” “That’s a shame.” “It’s the bane of my existence.” - Beth and Jake

Chris Evans

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

Chris Evans

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me.

Denis Hayes

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

Edgar Allan Poe

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Edward Abbey

Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws, the stopping of travel, the distribution of the mail on that day, and the introduction of the name of God into the Constitution; and as this action on the part of some women is used as an argument for the disfranchisement of all, I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all union of Church and State, and pledges itself as far as possible to maintain the secular nature of our Government.

Elfriede Jelinek

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

David Bowie

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

John Hill

Mr. President, we just all want to thank you for this nomination,

Charles Spurgeon

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Charles Spurgeon

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Diane Keaton

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Dean Rusk

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

Elbert Hubbard

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.