Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Acheson

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Bear Grylls

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

Earl Long

But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

Demetri Martin

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

Charles Krauthammer

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

David Moody

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

Nicolas Cage

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

John Steinbeck

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

Pat Nixon

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

Bob Yagge

We did them some favors on defense. That's what happens when you play on your heels instead of on your toes. We made some adjustments. Hopefully, we'll learn from those adjustments. We've got to.

Bruce Arena

There are other players who could be here who aren't here because of their positions in the league. To get some favors in return ? that means a lot to send those players back. This is a time we could do it.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

Calvin Trillin

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

David Dreman

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Hans Christian Andersen

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

Sebastian Faulks

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

R. C. Sproul

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

Marcus Aurelius

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

Jean Lacordaire

All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.

Victor Hugo

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

David Livingstone

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond