Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Abraham Lincoln

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Samantha Fox

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Norman Douglas

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Vladimir Putin

The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.

Tony Campolo

In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood.

I think what I reacted to so strongly when I first saw 'Pinocchio' was that I identified with the character so strongly. The movie takes you on a whole journey, a rollercoaster of emotions, and that sometimes means some very scary places. But in the end, it comes out okay.

We're kind of in that middle ground. We don't really have an identity yet.

Colm Feore

I looked at a lot of the comics and I tried to just get an idea from that. Not necessarily specifics of what my look would be or what the plan would be because I knew the script was evolving. I then started the discussion with Ken, who had been in discussion with you guys, intimately. And that they'd pared it down.

Cornel Wilde

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

Cornel West

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.

Cornel West

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

Colson Whitehead

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

Cliff Robertson

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

E. W. Howe

A poem is no place for an idea.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

George R. R. Martin

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.

We've identified the person - other spectators were kind enough to let us know who he was. All I want to say to this person face-to-face when I see him is that he's not welcome here.

We've identified about 50 of these and we're going to start shipping them in our ERP products starting this fall.

Charles Curtis

With so many incidents of identity loss via tape, some are wondering if they should get off tape,

We welcome people to come out to the multiplex on Friday. We're looking for ideas and involvement.

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.

There are many ideas, and I think that's the problem. We don't really understand how that works.

Bryan Singer

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.

Malcolm X

The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

There are always ideas you can take home.

There have been so many different ideas and surveys for the last 20 years. People here are so proud of their (shroud). In some way, they don't really want to know the truth.

Louis C. K.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

We've come up with a lot of ideas, but we seem to be struggling on which are the most important.