Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society.

Jodi Picoult

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

Louis L'Amour

It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

Michel de Montaigne

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

Neelie Kroes

Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

Leon Kass

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

For the people that have to do the process, it takes a substantial toll. We offer stress counseling.

Mark Gatiss

For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.

Irvin D. Yalom

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

Irvin D. Yalom

I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way.

J. K. Rowling

Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.

Ken Kesey

Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

Randal Kleiser

Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.

John Milton

Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

Mitch Albom

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Mitch Albom

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.

Nick Flynn

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

Meg Rosoff

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.

Ted Cruz

Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.

Carter Ham

Clearly, an AAV (Amtrac) does not offer the same protection a tank does,

Mick McCarthy

I have never seen it, I have never been offered and never been asked. If he has got something to tell, then he should tell the authorities.

Libba Bray

She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.

Jacque Fresco

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Henry A. Kissinger

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Johannes Tauler

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

All I can say in that respect is I know they had more than one offer from overseas. I don't know if that's impacted them.

We feel like we can offer considerable value.

Bill Ward

It offers sensible, practical advice, in an easy-to-read format.

It offered a secular vision of Syria that would dismantle very serious religious splits.

This is really a unique offering to our menu.

Tamora Pierce

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?