Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

John Avlon

But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other'

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

John Bunyan

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

George MacDonald

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

John Keats

I always made an awkward bow.

Lord Byron

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

Haruki Murakami

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

John Dryden

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

Lord Byron

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

Terry Pratchett

You know me, Esme. I couldn't subtract a fart from a plate of beans.

You could see the potential. To see him turn out the way he has so far is satisfying, but you never know for sure it'll happen. I just remember him being a big, raw kid who skated very well.

You could have the paradox of lifetime job guarantees and far fewer workers.

Cappie Pondexter

You come this far and work so hard, you don't want to share anything. They don't want to share with us.

You can't have $100-a-month sewer rates. How far can they take this? Where does this end?

You can't replace a Schweitzer. He was probably more important in the locker room the past two years than on the field. I don't know if there's too many other people on the planet like him as far as motivating (teammates).

You can see it -- our will to win -- no matter how far we get down we're going to keep fighting.

Gregg Popovich

You can only like the guy so much. After a while, it's 'OK, OK, we get it.' It's like a farewell tour.

Daniel Jones

You can take this as far as you want with me and I will go with it 100 percent.

The market generally tries to look forward. It's trying to look over the valley but doesn't know how far or wide that valley will be.

The market focused on only the good things in the survey. That suggests how far and fast the market sentiment has improved.

Mattie Stepanek

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Brad Guzan

The farthest thing from our minds is the whole snowball effect. It's our third game of the year. Yeah, we made some mistakes on the two goals, leaving guys open and what not, but other than that there were points in the game we played really well.

The farther you go, the less you know

The farther you go down south, the more likely it is you get into the big rain.

The farther you are from the city, the less amenities they have.

Jim Martin

The farther down it flows, the more its going to get diluted and the less harm it will do.

Winston Churchill

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The farms are getting so huge. You know, they can farm so much. The guy that's got the land, he tries to get some more.

The farm lab helped me a lot with a job now. Learning to irrigate and working on the tractors in the farm lab helped in my job last summer. Without Mr. Fink and that experience, I would have had no idea.

E. O. Wilson

The farmer then has an incentive not to sell his land, ... And society has what it wants - open space.

The farmers like to see how far the tractors have progressed through the years. The harness racing is also a longtime favorite.