Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Dan Shechtman

The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.

The good news is $76,000 is manageable. When it gets beyond that, it becomes untenable in a competitive world.

Anthony Holden

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

Richard O'Brien

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

Time becomes more precious when you have children.

Paramahansa Yogananda

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

Paramahansa Yogananda

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.

We have the same problems with the City Council's plan that we had with the mayor's plan. We'd like to have a ruling before we start administering those benefits ? it becomes very difficult to fix things after the fact.

Thomas Macaulay

Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

(Trott) can catch a ball. When he becomes part of our depth, we're going to tap that. We're going to see what he can do. He's a very highly skilled receiver. If he comes around like I think he can come around, I see now reason why.

Josh Duhamel

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

Jerry Bailey

We've been extremely patient. We've done everything we can to accommodate them. Sooner or later, the lawsuit becomes necessary.

Henry Giroux

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

Jo Bonner

Unlike those you may have seen in your own community, I would urge you, once a steady supply of fuel becomes available, to buy only the gas you need.

Howard Stern

I worry about going too far. I'm not going to do that, not because I'm a prude, but because it becomes mind-numbing and it doesn't make you laugh. I don't want to curse.

My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.

Mostly I want people to realize there's only so much we can do before it becomes harassment.

W. S. Gilbert

When the computers came in and took over, things got much cheaper. In the old days, dedicated video equipment was very expensive. Today the entry point is much lower. I would never buy anything I couldn't pay for in two years, because it becomes obsolete.

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.

Mark Johnson

When that wind comes up, it gets your attention. Club selection becomes very, very important.

When that character is right there, part of your life cleaning you or doing whatever they're doing, it becomes so much more real for all of us.

When structural damage becomes apparent, it is usually the result of years of infestation. Generally, termite problems only occur 10 or more years after construction.

Susanna Clarke

You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.

You like it when someone becomes a pop-culture icon and deserves it.

Clare Balding

When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.

O. Henry

We hate surf schools. Basically, surf schools bring so many people to the lineup that it becomes hazardous.

We have clearly not made things easy on ourselves during the conference season. To get back on track and doing the difficult things needed to win two out of three in a weekend series ... in the long run, you sort of say now next weekend becomes important again.

Keiji Fukuda

We have to monitor the situation to see whether resistance becomes a big problem or not.

Visible good easily becomes trite; visually there is very little material left-you know, you make a sunbeam pass over a character or a situation and it becomes far too pathetic and banal.

Virtually everybody in this community knows somebody who works at the Herald. If you can reach out and touch somebody personally, all of a sudden, it becomes your paper.