Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dante Alighieri

If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

Dan Simmons

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

Tim Duncan

We got into a flow in the third quarter. All in all it was a team effort.

Billy Graham

... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.

Dogen

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

When I first kind of stepped on the court, I got a little nervous, but about a possession-and-a-half later I kind of got into the flow of the game and forgot about it.

We've been going out of our way to maintain a good flow of traffic.

Phil Esposito

My competitive juices have started to flow again.

We had to take some time to get into the flow of our offense.

We've gotten to where we just flow with the play. But that's going to be tested this week.

Vince Carter

We're really starting to gel, starting to move. We've got our flow going as a starting unit. It's good to see.

William Shakespeare

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

William Shakespeare

Where souls do couch on flowers we’ll hand in hand...

Maurice Maeterlinck

Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Baz Luhrmann

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

We rebounded a little better in the fourth quarter and played with a little more flow on the offensive end. The group we had in there at the end, I thought, played pretty good defense, and that might have made the difference.

We're already getting the flowers and the curses.

We have some very good streaks. But we don't have the self-confidence to get ourselves past when things start to go bad. When they start to go bad, they seem to go worse. Right now, that's a big hurdle for us, to stop flows from occurring.

We can actually go in and look at their work flow and tailor a Web site for them ....

William Shakespeare

Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

William Shakespeare

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

George Clooney

People wax and wane, it ebbs and flows on what my standing is. Next year, I will be the butt of all the jokes. So it's cyclical.

NFA just played good defense. They took away a lot of the things we like to do with their zone defenses. We just never got into a good flow offensively the whole night.

On some level, we're sensitive to negatively stigmatizing people. I guess they could have named (hurricanes) after flowers or other neutral things.

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

Cornelia Funke

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

We are pleased by the decision. The free flow of information is vital for a free society.

Charles Manson

My relationship to music is completely subliminal, it just flows through me.

Robinson Jeffers

Look how noble the world is, the lonely-flowing waters, the secret-keeping stones, the flowing sky.

Alice Walker

The nature of this flower is to bloom.