Famous Quotes & Sayings

Satish Kumar

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

Benny Goodman

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

William Irwin Thompson

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

Jeffrey Bernard

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

Lin Biao

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

Hubert Burda

Online advertising works, although it lands especially on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They achieve much higher revenues online than the websites of publishing companies.

Lisa Snowdon

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

Gene Robinson

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

Carol Burnett

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Norman Geisler

Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders.

Maxim Gorky

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Paul Buchheit

Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.

Bodhidharma

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Warren G. Harding

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Mason Cooley

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Raul Castro

Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.

Wilhelm Reich

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Jean Giraudoux

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Hervey Allen

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Stefan Zweig

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Herman Kahn

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

Eberhard Arnold

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Paul Celan

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Albert Bushnell Hart

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

LaMarr Woodley

On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

Kay Lenz

On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

Vicente Fox

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

Casey Wilson

On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.

Adrian Edmondson

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

George Pataki

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

Caroline Knapp

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.

George Mikes

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

Brad Meltzer

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?

Hobart Alter

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

Debi Mazar

On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.

William Bligh

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.

Henry Hampton

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Sam Ewing

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

William Bartram

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Erich Maria Remarque

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

Scott Turow

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Zhang Xin

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

David Augsburger

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

Lurlene McDaniel

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

Victor Francis Hess

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

Alexander Henry

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

Peter Boyle

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

Daisy Bates

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.