Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Benjamin Franklin

He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.

Arthur Guiterman

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

Abraham Lincoln

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Jeremy Taylor

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Gordon Lightfoot

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

Robert Greene

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Charles Sturt

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

Charles Spurgeon

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

Alan Rickman

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

Chinua Achebe

Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.

Dave Barry

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

David Tepper

GM will do what's best for GM, and Delphi should do what's good for them.

Caitlin Moran

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.

Kurt Eichenwald

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

Theo Brown

We heard gunshots. We could see people moving barefoot through the water, with all they could carry, just panicked. It was mayhem.

Ruth Reichl

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.

Evangeline Lilly

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

Rick Roseman

Right now, Barefoot has been our strongest runner. He came on strong in track and has run all summer.

Juan Pablo Galavis

I don't walk barefoot. When I see a girl barefoot in the street... I'm like, 'Really?' But obviously, I can't judge someone for that first impression.

Tori Amos

I have my own parties. They involve being barefoot with a piece of fried chicken and margarita in each hand.

Grace Gealey

I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.

Miranda Kerr

I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.