Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Bagehot

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Delphine de Girardin

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Catherine Hardwicke

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

Samuel Butler

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Henry Markram

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

Hiam Abbass

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

When you seek it, you cannot find it.

We are always looking for evidential opportunities. We cannot discount anything.

We are ready for talks. I cannot say anything about the other side. We hope they welcome our generous and friendly offer.

Sonakshi Sinha

To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it.

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.

Xavier Becerra

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

Yang Lan

In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Yanis Varoufakis

Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

Yuri Milner

One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

Walter Smith

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Abraham Lincoln

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Wyclef Jean

What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.

Christian Louboutin

You know, you cannot be comfortable on a high heel shoes the way you would be in sneakers. But, you know, not everyone wants to be on sneakers. Sneakers are for different purposes.

Colin Morgan

I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut's, Nice 'n' Sleazy's and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O'Neill's on Queen Street.

Chris Carter

Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.

Ellen Key

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

Ellen Key

Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Harri Holkeri

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

Hassan Rouhani

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

We don't know what can and cannot be done with this technology,