Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Jeanette Winterson

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

Jeanette Winterson

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Jermaine O'Neal

I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

Jehane Noujaim

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

George Eliot

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

Gabriel Lippmann

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

Gabriel Iglesias

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

Frank Rich

Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.

Frank Pittman

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.

George Herbert

Citties are taken by the eares.

George Herbert

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

George Herbert

Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.

Chris Hedges

When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party.

Christine Lagarde

We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.

Christine Feehan

He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

Chris Wooding

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

George W. Bush

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of.

George W. Bush

Every action being taken against terrorists requires court order, requires scrutiny.

George Vancouver

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

George V. Higgins

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

George Soros

Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.

George Orwell

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

George R. R. Martin

I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships, or a western about a gunslinger, or even literary fiction, and ultimately you're still writing about the human heart in conflict with itself.

Jean Cocteau

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

George Carlin

I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

George Carlin

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

Garth Nix

It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does! - Grim Tuesday