Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Charles de Lint

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

David Harvey

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

Lucy Stone

Leave women to find their sphere.

Orson Welles

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

Franz Liszt

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Erich Fromm

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

H. P. Lovecraft

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.

Oswald Chambers

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Michael Crichton

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Bruno Latour

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

Arthur Scargill

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

Abba Eban

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

Bobby Jindal

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

Charles Spurgeon

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Bruce Campbell

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

Alex Kapranos

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

David Levithan

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

Stephen Jay Gould

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.