Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

Marv Albert

If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.

Natasha Henstridge

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

Mitch Hedberg

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

Mae West

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

Mae West

Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.

Lydia Ko

A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.

L'Wren Scott

I am only six foot three, by the way.

Louis L'Amour

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

Liya Kebede

Theres a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Michel de Montaigne

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

Markus Zusak

In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring to beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them--until one last time, when he gathered himself to his feet...

Nicholas Hoult

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

Naomi Benaron

Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

Nadia Comaneci

The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

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!

Kazuo Ishiguro

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

Kristen Johnston

I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.