Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

Arjun Rampal

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

Aristophanes

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Antonio Davis

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

Antonio Gramsci

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Porchia

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

Anzia Yezierska

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

Anzia Yezierska

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

Brother Lawrence

The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.

Brian Williams

As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.

Edward Young

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

We removed Father Evans from the ministry upon first hearing of the allegations.

Years ago, we stepped away from the radical fringe. I'm not saying that a father who has lost his kids hasn't (made threats). I'm saying we have no knowledge of it.

David Daniels

We're just starting to scratch the surface. The fate and power of e-mail marketing are strong.

William Shakespeare

She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

Men at some time are masters of their fates...

William Shakespeare

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

David Duke

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

David Duchovny

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

David Brainerd

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

David Brainerd

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

Benazir Bhutto

I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me - and I think it was after I played Salieri in "Amadeus" at university. And he said, You're better than I ever was or ever could be, you should do this for profession. You'd have a good time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

Beatrix Potter

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

Beau Bridges

I've done a number of these My Name is Earl shows. I play Earl's father. It's a half-hour comedy. And I'll be doing some more of those. I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don't Fade Away.

Bear Grylls

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

Baroness Orczy

Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.

Barry Bonds

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

August Strindberg

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

August Wilson

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.