Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Miller

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.

Corrie Ten Boom

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Cornel West

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a blues man, that's a very serious vocation - to muster the courage to find your own unique voice, to forge your distinctive style in the world, to leave your imprint in the sands of time in such a way that your singularity, your individuality, remains something that people have to come to terms with.

David Lynch

I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.

David Hawkins

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.

David Caruso

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

Curtis Hanson

First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.

Curtis Hanson

Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.

Curtis Hanson

It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

Curtis Hanson

Bad Influence, which is an early movie of mine that I'm very fond of. It was an unhappy experience when that picture got released, because it coincided with that ridiculous Rob Lowe videotape scandal.

Curtis Jackson

If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.

Confucius

When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

Confucius

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Dana Snyder

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

Dallas Willard

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

Curtis White

This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

Cy Twombly

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

David Cameron

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

David Byrne

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

David Lipsky

I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

David Levithan

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

David Levithan

I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

David Levithan

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

David Blackwell

Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.

David Bohm

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

David Bohm

We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.

David Bohm

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole...

David Eddings

What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

David Eddings

...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

David Ben-Gurion

We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

Deepak Chopra

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

Debbie Allen

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.

Dean Norris

As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.