Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Laurie

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Elaine Pagels

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

Tim Schafer

I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games.

Sydney Smith

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Winston Churchill

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

We paid the price in millions of dollars in fines, 10 times that for our members, and face impending loss of dues check off which is going to hemorrhage the finances of our union. But you cannot take on a fight like this and not get bloodied. We are still here standing before you bloodied but unbowed.

With 10 minutes to go, we felt like we had the game. But we learned what that kind of speed is. You cannot simulate how quick they are.

Shawn Amos

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.

Eugene Hutz

Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape it. But I found that I liked it.

Clarence Darrow

First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Alexandra Stoddard

Your past is something you cannot change. You can't live it; it's dead.

Alex Berenson

Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.

Pearl S. Buck

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Peter Bondra

I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go,

Mohamed ElBaradei

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.

The word of God is a Christian's instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty.

Paul Theroux

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Ernest Hemingway

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

David Bowie

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

David Bowie

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

Charles Spurgeon

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

The governor has said from the beginning, if this cannot be done cleanly, he's not interested in it. The question is, 'Does the party doing it make that commitment?' We're going to make that commitment.

The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented in its current form.

The good news for workers is that productivity growth cannot continue at this pace. Demand will translate into jobs very soon, and in fact I think it's happening right now.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

Ray Comfort

I cannot express to you how grateful I am that I am a Christian. Before I was a Christian, I went through a time in my life where I just didn't know why I was alive.

Rutina Wesley

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

Malala Yousafzai

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

Ehud Barak

Time is of the essence for the whole process. We cannot sit idly and wait for the whole process to be solved somehow,

Danny Green

You know, I cannot or ever will make the world a better place to live. But I can help other people help make the world a better place to live.