Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Robbins

Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal to the moment.

John Rawls

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

John Ray

Manners make often fortunes.

John Ralston Saul

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

John O'Hara

In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

John Olver

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

James J. Hill

The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.

James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is the music of reason.

James Joyce

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

James Joyce

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

James Robertson

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

James Russell Lowell

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

James Russell Lowell

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

James Randi

Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

James Randi

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

James F. Amos

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

Laurence Sterne

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Larry Gelbart

We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.

Larry Hagman

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

Kylie Bax

I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.

Kwame Kilpatrick

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

Kyle MacLachlan

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

Liev Schreiber

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

Liev Schreiber

I manage to hide in my movies.

Libba Bray

Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

Libba Bray

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

Libba Bray

She's no beauty, mate

Libba Bray

To each his own magic.

Libba Bray

It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,' I say. 'Only untested' -page 569

Lester Bowie

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

Gary Chapman

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

Fritz Haber

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

Friedrich List

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.