Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

H. Allen Smith

Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

Chris Hayes

I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against Catholics and it said all sorts of things about them. They are essentially a fifth column. They are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with Romanists, that`s their term of Catholics, the Romanists will have to be taught their place in. Was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at Catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the American way of life?

Mario Cuomo

In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.

Chris Turner

Initially the catalyst was the Indonesia crisis, ... Everyone thought, 'emerging markets, let's get the hell out of there.' Initially, stocks fell quite aggressively, but then Russia ran into its own problems.

William Booth

In mathematics, everything is in procedures, and if you don't follow the right procedure, you won't get the right answer. There's a pattern. And there's a pattern in catching and throwing, too. You have to follow the right pattern.

In my first years here, we had kids who couldn't catch the ball. But they really worked at it. Last year, they were acrobatic at times and we have a really good group this year.

Josh Freeman

I'm not as fast as I want to be, but I'm working on that. That's why I'm doing so much speed training. I've just always been able to catch the ball. That and staying on my routes, running the route correctly. If I see something that's open, I'll change and hopefully get to that spot and Owen will see me.

Pliny the Elder

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

Pope John XXIII

The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

Natsuki Takaya

It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......!

Mother Teresa

If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept.

Mother Teresa

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.

Mother Teresa

The #‎ poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

Mother Teresa

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

Jonah Goldberg

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

Kaspar Hauser

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

Josh Gad

I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.

Katherine Dunn

Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.

John Adams

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

Lyle Overbay

The hype was there and the vibe was there, so it didn't really catch me off guard. I'm just happy to be a part of it and there's more to come, right there.

The idea of fishing is to catch a big fish. If you just caught small ones, what would be the point?

The evolution from the $1 category to the $2 category might mean a marginal improvement or nothing at all or a worsening in poverty.

The environment is very good now. While in fact I'm less exuberant about the large stocks I think the small stocks will play catch up.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.

Studs Terkel

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.

Studs Terkel

Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph

Sting

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

Stevie Smith

I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

Stevie Smith

See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

Stephen Greenblatt

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

John C. Wright

If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.