Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Icke

The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Benazir Bhutto

Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.

Baroness Orczy

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

Barney Frank

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Frederic Bastiat

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it would try to force them to be self-sacrificing.

Denis Waitley

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

Diego Rivera

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.

Dick Durbin

We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.

David Hockney

The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

David Brinkley

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Arthur Peacocke

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

Denis Waitley

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Aimee Mann

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Charles James

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

Ron Vaughn

When you put it into perspective, it's not that much.

Ben Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate? I didn't know if there were 12 or 1 (who were alive).

Bennett Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate?

David Remnick

What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait?

David Hewson

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

David Brainerd

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

David Brainerd

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

Ben Wheatley

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

Audrey Tautou

I don't want to become more famous than what I am. I'm not interested in being in movies that are going to be shown all around the world and get a massive audience, so I'm interested in doing foreign movies as long as it stays an exceptional case and is exotic, but I don't want to go there[Hollywood].

Audre Lorde

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.

Arthur Rimbaud

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.