Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lakhdar Brahimi

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

Tom Kloza

We're going to see $3 a gallon gas quite commonly in the next week or so,

Toba Beta

When we do stargazing, we stare at the stars...and many other things which we have presumed commonly as stars.

George Watson

In the past, people overworked, but commonly because they were forced by poverty or impelled by a sense of duty. Now work can be a neurotic addiction. 'Workaholic' is a 20th-century word, one suspects, because it is a 20th-century type.

Janet Yellen

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

Ron Pernick

Solar stocks as a group are probably up 4 to 6 times more than most of the commonly followed indices.

Jose Andres Puerta

Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used.

George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

Charles Eastman

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

John Grahame

The past six games, I felt pretty well. I think everybody's intensity has picked up. I think mine has.

David Friedman

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

Thalia

I think it keeps your brain moving faster, singing in another language.

Marianne Williamson

Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.

will.i.am

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Lynn Schusterman

I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models.

Wes Welker

Basically, I really like to train. That's what keeps me busy during the offseason - just training and getting my body right and getting ready for the next year.

Amity Shlaes

Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.

Mary McGinnis

Volleyball is all about momentum and once you get it rolling it just keeps going. That (10-0 run) was a big key.

Miley Cyrus

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Conrad Burns

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Theo James

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

Stephen Covey

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

John Sculley

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

James Garner

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

Mahavira

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Nalini Nadkarni

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

Peter Thomson

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Dianna Agron

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

John O. Brennan

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

J. B. Priestley

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

Jackson Browne

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

Hillary Clinton

I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

Tommy Lee Jones

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

Sue Monk Kidd

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Alan Cohen

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

Alan Cohen

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Alan Cohen

When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges and maintain an attitude freer than fear? When confronted with upsets and the poisonous projections of others, can you remember that all is well? Do you know that you are a spiritual being, not subject to the whims and caprices of earthly tides?

Alan Cohen

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

Alan Cohen

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Alan Cohen

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

Alan Cohen

The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.

Frank Iero

When the water touched my balls, that's when I got scared.

Ludwig von Mises

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Laini Taylor

It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.

Benjamin Franklin

You will be careful, if you are wise; How you touch Men's Religion, or Credit, or Eyes.

Bill Tavares

You could just see something. I get in the sled and I actually go down with some of our new drivers, and you could just tell she had something from the get-go. They just have something. It's tough to explain. You got touched by something, and it works.

Cai Guo-Qiang

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Plato

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

Henry Austin Dobson

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Guy Finley

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Oscar Wilde

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Madeleine L'Engle

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.