Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine the Great

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

Catherine the Great

to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

Carl Lewis

I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

Michael Schenker

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

The one thing we haven't done much is come back. It's great to do that and have the feeling that we can do it.

Josh Brown

We've all put so much time in, and it's what we deserve. It's an unbelievable feeling. It feels great.

Geoff Blum

We've all played this game and had our hearts broken. I can only imagine what it feels like at this level.

We are a team with no names. But I have a feeling after tomorrow night we'll have a few names.

We're in a mode where it feels like there's no free time, but there really is. To live a good life is not about going to a meditation retreat one weekend a year. It's about moment by moment, every day. You've got to train yourself, train yourself to be calm.

We started off the second half good. I think we relaxed a little bit, honestly, ... I got the feeling that we felt like we had the game in hand. We had a lead, but it wasn't too much.

Where I would have thought this was 30-70 or 40-60 a few weeks ago, my guess is it feels more like 50-50 now, which is not just a number but a trend line.

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

When you talk to everyone, you just get the feeling we're going to be able to get something done at Indiana. When I looked at the situation there, I just realized that this could be a really good opportunity for me.

We're not going to slow down. We've got the sectional at Eisenhower. We're feeling good.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Louis C. K.

I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

Louis C. K.

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

Kurt Vonnegut

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Charles Lyell

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.

Aimee Bender

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

Aidan Turner

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

Bliss Carman

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

Bill Paxton

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

Bill Richardson

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

Bill Keller

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

Beverly Sills

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Eddie Izzard

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

Earl Wilson

Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.

Ed Begley, Jr.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Eartha Kitt

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

Dean Acheson

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.