Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rohr

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

David A. Adler

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

Ad Reinhardt

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Richard G. Scott

Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more.

Linden Ashby

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

Paul Ryan

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

Stendhal

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Hugh Blair

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Mark Webber

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Zhang Yimou

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

Helen Hayes

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Tyler Posey

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

Yang Lan

On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.

William Scott

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

Gabrielle Zevin

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Edwidge Danticat

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

Rachel Joyce

On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.

Bobby Jindal

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

William Bligh

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Mercy Otis Warren

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

Krysten Ritter

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.

Mark Udall

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

Boris Spassky

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

Robert Peel

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.

Mitch Kapor

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

Peter Benenson

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

John Erskine

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Walter Benjamin

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Andre Malraux

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

William Kent Krueger

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

Bob Barr

Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.

Nikki Grimes

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!

Allen Tate

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

Rick Larsen

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Patrick Leahy

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

Bruce Hornsby

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

Duke of Wellington

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Virginia Madsen

Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David Baldacci

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

David Wenham

People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

Elizabeth Reaser

People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

Thomas Kinkade

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

Andy Partridge

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.