Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grace Paley

I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.

Gilbert Burnet

The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could.

Gilbert Parker

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

George Herbert

Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.

George Herbert

Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.

Georg Brandes

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Jerry B. Jenkins

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Jennie Finch

I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.

Jean-Paul Marat

Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

Giacomo Casanova

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Ian Brown

I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

Horace Walpole

When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.

Horace

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

Homer

You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!

Homer

Forget the brother and resume the man.

Homer

Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.

Asafa Powell

If I thought about (the record), I would have broken it but the key is to have fun. (The fans) are crazy out here. It's like I was in Jamaica. I'm excited to see the people. The fans are what fuel me.

Mitch Leigh

If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.

Jimmy Rollins

If I don't get that hit, we don't have any chance to win. It kept the streak. It was definitely on my mind, but at that point, it brought J-Mike up with a chance to tie the game.

David Attenborough

If I do a series or tapes for the States and it's sponsored by somebody for the public broadcast system, I am committed to going on tour around various stations.

If I could have brought four (throwers), I would have scored more points.

If I'd have brought him up that year, he'd have never progressed.

Jonathan King

If I'd broken them, I'd have deserved on-going payment, but since I didn't manage to, the future depended on their own endeavors.

If I could say one good thing about Katrina, it brought in a lot of volunteers.

John Nash

If he had broken the law, or was more culpable, perhaps. It was an accident. It wasn't an intentional violation.

Joschka Fischer

If (entry talks) are broken off and the shards are lying on the floor, then it will become damn costly for us,

Phil Jackson

I felt they were self-directed out there. They knew what they wanted to run. They broke down the double-teams and I didn't have to burn timeouts to explain it to them. That was satisfying to me.

If Gordon Brown follows Blair's modernization agenda, he will lead the party to defeat at the next election.

Julie Smith

If Germany's politicians are concentrating on trying to build coalitions, and then on trying to keep those coalitions together, the broader cause of economic reform within the EU will not exactly be at the top of their agenda.