Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Bateman

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

Janis Ian

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

Jared Diamond

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

Jane Wyman

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

Gary L. Francione

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

I am trying to make them all comfortable and welcome until they get themselves all up on their feet. They are welcome to stay. They are my kin folks, and I love them.

B.B. King said, 'Never make your move too soon,'

George Williams

Basketballs, soccer balls, bicycles, just all kinds of things,

Edward Furlong

I'm a real lazy, slow kind of person.

Morally and constitutionally, the king is getting weaker.

No other 1942 film would touch those kinds of numbers.

John Ruiz

Now we'll see if Don King is my promoter or not.

I don't think you make rash judgments. We didn't get a lot of things done. We've got a lot of people playing, (with) all different kinds of combinations in different places. So, we're not doing anything consistently. We've got what we've got.

Shirley Knight

I don't think you want her around too often, she kind of takes over,

Reggie Bush

I feel like I've been making those kinds of plays and those kinds of moves since I was 9 years old. It's God's gift. It's a blessing, and I'm just trying to make the most of that blessing.

John Glenn

I don't have any quarrel with sending written questions or submitting whatever kind of testimony they want over there are the White House. That's up to the president,

I don't even talk about those kinds of things.

I don't know what kind of reception we'll get,

Steve Jocz

I don't know. Maybe. Probably not. It'd have to be safe . . . in that kind of a situation you never know whether it's going to be safe. We thought it would be safe, but something happened.

I don't know why, ... It's kind of neat to watch.

Bobby Jones

I don't know why it's been that way. It's just kind of weird.

Ben Folds

I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.

Ben Folds

What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

Cardinal Richelieu

One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal Richelieu

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

C. S. Lewis

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

C. S. Lewis

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

C. S. Lewis

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

C. S. Lewis

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.

C. S. Lewis

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Calvin Coolidge

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.