Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damian Lewis

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

Susannah York

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

Anne Cassidy

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Richard von Weizsaecker

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Lionel Hampton

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Yukiya Amano

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

Robbie Coltraine

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Bill Haley

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Linus Torvalds

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

Strom Thurmond

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

William Wirt

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Sylvia Kristel

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

Paul Samuelson

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Louise Hart

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Meg Rosoff

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

Pierre Corneille

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Gordon W. Allport

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

Andre Maurois

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Mariel Hemingway

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Irving Penn

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

Jose Bergamin

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Lamar Alexander

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

Theodor Mommsen

Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

Tony Robbins

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Chris Jordan

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

Anthony Anderson

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

Eileen Caddy

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

Irwin Redlener

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized

Martin Amis

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? I've written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that?

Kristina McMorris

Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.

William J. Brennan

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

Gwen Verdon

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

Sharon Tate

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.

Joanne Woodward

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Kingsley Amis

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

Gioconda Belli

Sexuality surrounds us like a dangerous aura. The same reverence that is given to the spirit is not given to the flesh. We have had a sexual revolution, but the sexual revolution only has made sex more pervasive. It hasn't granted the level of reverence and respect that it should have.

Charlotte Bunch

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Mollie King

'Sexy' is being independent, being confident and having fun.

Evita Peron

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Edward T. Hall

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

H. C. Bunner

Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.

Paul Oakenfold

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

Eugenie Clark

Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

Louise Fletcher

She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.