Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

John Adams

We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

Joe Orton

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

James Dean

And my heart just did a flip-flop over that.

William Wordsworth

And much it grieved my heart to thinkWhat Man has made of Man.

And I think after today we will no longer hear that it was just seven rogue soldiers.

All we've been hearing all week is, 'David vs. Goliath. Well, in the real story, who won? David, right?

Kevin Hall

All we're hearing from the House leadership is 'no,' and that's not a solution. It is bewildering that there are those in the House who would remove tools as opposed to offering constructive solutions of their own.

Bobby Bowden

All we hear here is, 'Inexperienced quarterback. Inexperienced quarterback,' ... Well, they've got the same problem.

All we heard was rumbling, ... Then it was peace and quiet.

All week long we heard Pittsburgh plays physical. They run smash-mouth football. We think we're pretty physical ourselves. We're pretty smash-mouth.

All of a sudden you?d be talking to someone at the store and they?d be like, have you heard of this North American Training Lodge?

The CRTC did not have a policy hearing where everything is on the table,

The first thing you are going to hear is a rejection or put-off,

The first time I heard the extraordinary story of Ramanujan, I tucked it away in my mind.

Nick Lachey

The first time I ever heard her sing, I got chills.

Arlen Specter

This hearing comes at a time of turbulent partisanship in the United States Senate - turbulent partisanship.

Robert Browning

This is a heart the Queen leant on.

All I know is when my people go out, they tell me there are a lot of people awaiting rescue. I hear there are hundreds of people still on their rooftops.

Sylvia Hatchell

All I know is that we're going to play with a lot of heart and passion, and we're going to have fun.

Ric Ocasek

All I need is what you've got / All I'll tell is what you're not / All you know is what you hear / I get this way when you come near

All in all they showed a lot of heart in doing what they did.

Jim Sensenbrenner

All I hear from my constituents is to keep at it.

Steve Smith

All I heard all week long was what I didn't do. I was real motivated.

All I had to do was open my heart and say, 'Show me, God,' and it's always been that way for me.

Scott Anderson

All I could hear was popping, cracking, just settling and whatever. I've lived here 20 years and all of a sudden, this happens.

Eric Kandel

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

Eric Hoffer

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

Eric Hoffer

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

Eric Hoffer

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

Eric Berne

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.