Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

William Shakespeare

A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?

William Shakespeare

'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful

The quality of life is so high in our area. We have a lot of good things that people like for their neighborhoods ? which include relatively low crime, good schools, beautiful surroundings and we don't tax retirement. As a result, our neighbors in Maryland are moving up here.

Carlo Ancelotti

We are in good condition, We hope to do well tomorrow night and it's going to be a beautiful game between two sides that always try to impose their own play.

We are inaugurating one of the single most important and beautiful libraries in North America.

Titi, have you ever watched the Home Channel? ... It's beautiful like that. It's somewhere you can raise your kids in and your kids will come back to.

Two wins in two years and now we already have two wins this season. It's a beautiful thing.

E. F. Schumacher

I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Dogen

Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.

Emmanuel Petit

Winning the World Cup is the most beautiful thing to have happened to France since the Revolution.

We were looking forward to a great, beautiful fall in New Orleans.

When it comes to the most beautiful women of all time, head-turning, full-on glamour wins the day. The women who top the list all possess classic, timeless beauty and they know how to show it off to the best effect. Women are now returning to the high maintenance, polished look because it makes them feel fabulous and they know men love it too.

Dolly Parton

Well, I'm talking about your beautiful green eyes. Are they real?

We hope it will be a beautiful day, but we've got a covered concrete building at the Farm Center in case of inclement weather. We'll have the cook-off rain or shine.

Steve Squyres

We have taken a beautiful 360-degree panoramic image, which I truly believe will be one of the signature accomplishments of this mission,

Steve Squyres

We have taken a beautiful 360-degree panorama, which I believe is going to be truly one of the signature accomplishments of this mission.

Robbie is probably the fastest kid on the team, and has a beautiful touch. He has played everywhere off the bench for us, and has fit in wherever he has played.

Right there on the lake with the sun going down, (the amphitheater) is a beautiful structure. It's just a great way to enjoy an evening.

It doesn't change much for me really and my motivation remains the same - to create a beautiful future with Barcelona, winning many titles.

It doesn't look like much, but to us, it's a beautiful sight,

Jorge Sampaio

It has been a beautiful thing to see, the flags draped on balconies and cars, faces painted, the red and green of our cloth everywhere, ... I hope the Portuguese can keep the spirit up and lend it to their everyday lives.

Total devastation. There's nothing left. Waveland was a beautiful town. It had just bounced back from Camille. They were planning new streets. People were buying new homes.

Mike Tirico

This will show off one of the most beautiful courses, a great, restored course,

Donald Miller

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

We wanted everyone to remember her for the beautiful person she was and not the circumstances that happened. It was our way to look beyond all that.

Jim Wallis

We could put parking in the front yard and cut down some of the beautiful oak trees out there. I'd really hate to see it become a wall of parking. But I guess we could consider that.

Joanne Harris

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Jo Nesbo

As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

Jimmy Carter

The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try to define what is good or what is true or what is beautiful. But government can provide nourishment to the ground within which these ideas spring forth from the seeds of inspiration within the human mind.