Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Thomas Day

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

S. Jay Olshansky

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

Steve Sampson

Let's put it this way France '98 was half a decade ago - it's ancient history as far as I'm concerned. I've moved on.

George Will

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

Tim Birkhead

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light.

Eula Biss

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

Sarah Monette

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Joe Crawford

We felt it was important to make that move from a position of strength, when we could pick our partners, ... We feel the companies' cultures mesh well.

Desarae Garland

I expected a lot of parties, different cultures and seeing people sticking with others from their hometown.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Brian Sewell

Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied,

Jan Wright

I think he gives us a little window into what it took to be a pioneer in terms of the material cultures and the thought processes that went into voting and where he gave his business.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Edward Sapir

During the more than four hundred years that have elapsed since the discovery of America, the native cultures have naturally not been static.

David Hume

I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.

David Hume

Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable.

David Hume

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

August Wilson

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

Antonin Artaud

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Antonin Artaud

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Dennis Miller

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

Al Yankovic

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

Thaddeus Mathis

We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

Bill Watterson

What state do you live in? Denial.

Bob Inglis

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Edwin Louis Cole

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Brennan Manning

That which is denied cannot be healed.

Eckhart Tolle

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

Matthew Fox

Jack is a very scientific man, very logical and obviously with everything he has seen on this island, he's going to have to find a way to snap out of this denial and start confronting this real reality he's existing in.

Eric McCormack

I think we're in denial a little bit." ()

Jeff Zucker

He expressed the position that NBC is in, ... We're in a rebuilding phase. Nobody's in denial about that.

David Hume

Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

Billy Bob Thornton

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Kevin Rose

We have a huge tech following that do nothing but Digg tech stories, and then there's another pool of users that remove the tech section from their view of Digg, because you can go on and customize your own experience and remove sections you don't like.

Rory Kinnear

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.

Tao Lin

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

Tyler Perry

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

Twyla Tharp

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Phil Holden

We're going for a richer experience. Basically, more for the same price.

David Brooks

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Audre Lorde

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

Astro Teller

Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World

Casey Todd

We always focus one game at a time.

Steve Makein

We always feel good going into any match. We're focusing on individual match-ups and scoring as many points as we can.

Condoleezza Rice

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

Denis Waitley

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

Deborah Harkness

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

Franz Grillparzer

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

Baha'u'llah

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

William Shakespeare

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

Charlotte Rampling

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

Bill Watterson

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.

Elbert Hubbard

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Shelly Peterson

We are grieving and sympathizing with the rest of the world. As for our investor services, they are open and functioning, and requests will be processed as of the next market.

Gordon Strachan

We are grieving about this result but we should also be thinking about Chris. I hope he'll be back soon.

Clare Bowen

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Michael Hirschorn

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

Brandon Jennings

The harder you work when nobody’s watching the less you bleed when it’s time to perform.

Angus King

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

Natalie Cole

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

Kevin Connors

She has that potential to get better. She's a quick player, and she's worked a lot harder on her shot.

Jessica Martinez

Missing them is a big deal, but I think the rest of the team, the rest of the players knew what was on the line, and everyone just stepped it up and played harder throughout the second half.

Michael Hurst

Many POWs went home and were discouraged from talking about their time in Taiwan. Therefore, we must work harder to make sure these men are never forgotten.

Kim Jones

She shot a real nice, solid 44 on the back nine which I thought was the harder nine. One hole really got her.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Charles Darwin

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

William Burroughs

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.

Tom Chillemi

Left-handers have a natural hook. They really have an advantage.

Edmund Hillary

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Andy Nota

We did most of the work on the beach. We didn't intrude on the natural habitat.

Jane Austen

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Aubrey McClendon

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Aretha Franklin

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

A. N. Wilson

She was a natural leader, ... You know when there's a group, somebody always seems to be a leader? She was that.

Deepika Padukone

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

Chace Crawford

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

Demi Moore

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

Daniel Craig

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

Karan Johar

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

Antony Beevor

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

Liev Schreiber

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

Victoria Beckham

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

Linda Gray

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.