Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bessie Head

It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

Bernard Pivot

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Bill Watterson

Genius is never understood in its own time.

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

We're so much interested in seeing the younger generation helping the next generation because that generation has been so helpful in the past.

What we're really interested in generating is UA intellectual property. It offers a revenue stream from intellectual property.

What we're looking for is the possibility of a genetic eyewitness.

What has to worry us is whether it will be a genuine deployment or a make-believe deployment, and at present the impression is that it will be a make-believe deployment,

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Benjamin Franklin

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.

Benjamin Franklin

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

Arthur Balfour

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

bell hooks

Patriarchy has no gender.

Anthony Trollope

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

We're genuinely grateful for our fans. That's why we went out to say thanks, too. I'm really thankful being part of this team, especially knowing how this town loves the Seahawks.

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strained

James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Keira Knightley

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Edmund Burke

Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.

John Peel

Yes, I always feel that the music I like, and I genuinely like, the stuff I play on the radio is my own way of going out on the street and righting these wrongs that I think should be righted.

With the president, Republicans are of two minds. With national security, there is a level of content. But with economics, there is a general level of discontent.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

Ultimately we want to invest it so it generates income and then be able to use that income for a variety of purposes within the province.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

When they were off of the court, they had true genuine friendships. They spent a lot of time together off of the court. I think a lot of the time it doesn't happen. We always thought that that was kind of a neat thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.