Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Richards

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Angela Bassett

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

Ang Lee

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Anatoly Chubais

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

Anatole France

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

Anais Nin

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

Anais Nin

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

Anais Nin

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

Anais Nin

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

Anne Hathaway

College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.

Anne Frank

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

Ann Aguirre

Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.

Andrei Tarkovsky

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be

Anaxagoras

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Chuck Palahniuk

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

Chuck Hagel

I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

Chuck Jones

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

Chuck Barris

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

Christy Turlington

I'm not entirely comfortable with myself in underwear.

Chuck D.

When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

Christopher Wren

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Christopher Nolan

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Christopher Walken

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

Christopher Walken

I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

Christopher Paolini

They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon

Christopher McCandless

We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

Christopher Marlowe

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

Andrew Cohen

The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

Andrew Carnegie

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

Andrea Mitchell

I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Aly Khan

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.