Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

Where your will is ready, your feet are light.

Jay Kay

In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

Jay Leno

Today the Justice Department released e-mails where Walker criticized America. In the e-mails he said he never wanted to set foot in America again. See, that's the good part about hanging somebody. Their feet don't touch the ground.

Jaron Lanier

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

Jared Leto

Just jump in with both feet and live your life, no matter what.

Jared Leto

Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

Paul Ryan

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

Patrick Henry

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Joseph Pulitzer

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.

Joseph Stalin

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Paul Gauguin

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

Laurence J. Peter

When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.

Jodi Picoult

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

Jodi Picoult

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

Jodi Picoult

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

Jodi Picoult

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

Paul Newman

You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

Marsilio Ficino

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

Marsilio Ficino

[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

Mike Parry

When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

Neve Campbell

I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!

Rachel Roy

I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

Rachel Joyce

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

Nhat Hanh

Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

Huey Lewis

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

Huey Long

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

He really rose to the occasion. It's a big jump and it's the first time we've had a long jumper over 22 feet since Mike Price (a 1997 graduate).

Jay Wright

For some reason in the first half, it was like our feet were frozen. I've got to watch the film to understand it.

Ivan Turgenev

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.