Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kahneman

Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification.

Daniel Kahneman

Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

D. A. Carson

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.

D. J. MacHale

I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby

Czeslaw Milosz

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

Czeslaw Milosz

Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.

D. A. Carson

Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.

D. H. Lawrence

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

D. H. Lawrence

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

D. H. Lawrence

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

Crystal Eastman

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

Conrad Hall

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

Conrad Aiken

I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort--I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form--all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.

Conor Oberst

The world's become a little too mean.

Conor Oberst

Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

Conor Oberst

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.

Conor Oberst

I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me.

Conor Oberst

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

Clint Howard

Auditioning is important, and I understand that. If there is somebody making a movie, if there is somebody manufacturing a movie, they want to look at the goods. I get it. I mean, I've been in that position.

Clint Black

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

Clint Black

[If] I'm talking about something, that doesn't mean I'm necessarily doing it.

Clifton Fadiman

Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

Clint Eastwood

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Clarence Darrow

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

Clarence Darrow

In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

Clarence Darrow

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

Danny Garcia

The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are.

Danny Masterson

See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.

Daniel De Leon

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.

Daniel Defoe

Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.

Daniel Defoe

...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into...

Dan Carter

Nerves are natural, it means you're ready to face a challenge and perform.

Dan Byrd

The great thing about a name like Cougar Town is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. Its a very loud title. But theres a connection to the word cougar that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.