Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.

William James

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Sara Evans

But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly

Willard Van Orman Quine

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.

Saint Augustine

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Saint Augustine

Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

Xenophanes

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

William Watson

And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!

William Watson

Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.

W. C. Fields

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

William Davenant

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

Vladimir Nabokov

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Messi does not need his right foot. He only uses the left and he's still the best in the world. Imagine if he also used his right foot, Then we would have serious problems.

Zelda Fitzgerald

There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.