Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Flynn

On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.

Leonid Hurwicz

A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.

Tawni O'Dell

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

Bruce Lee

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Peter Morgan

Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else.

Herman Hesse

Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

Manish Jha

Mobile ESPN has defined a new wireless category, and with that, we are positioning the service and our marketing around the idea that life will never get in the way of sports again. This is more than a phone -- it is like putting ESPN in your pocket.

Carmen Ejogo

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

Richard Lazarus

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

William Hazlitt

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Walter Pater

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.

John Dennis

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

William Hazlitt

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

William Hazlitt

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

Charlotte Bronte

Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes;

Arthur Schopenhauer

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Dwight L. Moody

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

Kary Mullis

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

David Platt

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Jack Canfield

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

Granth Sahib

In the midst of children, spouse and relations, some still remain detached; they are pleasing to Your Will. Inwardly and outwardly, they are pure, and they are absorbed in the True Name.

Theodore Parker

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Adolf Hitler

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

Phaedrus

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Michael Sullivan

The reason they like them is they are outward forms,

Kate Christensen

I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.

Philip Kerr

There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.