Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Liman

Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.

Thomas Gibson

People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse, and we've gotten capable of doing more terrible things. I don't know if I necessarily think that that's true.

Atharva Veda

Love binds all hearts in a soft silken symphony. Seen through the eyes of Love, all beings are beautiful; all deeds are dedicated; and all thoughts are innocent. The World is one vast kin.

Sathya Baba

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy). Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

Bhagavad Gita

There are two types of human beings in this world: the divine, and the demonic.

Ray Davies

She only sang. I didn't have to talk to her. I was quite uncomfortable, but I thought it was a nice moment. Love ends, but songs are for ever. They capture a moment and an emotion. You can have two human beings who should not be in the same house, or possibly even the same country, but the music tells you that it really could have been for ever. In those three minutes, there are no hard feelings.

Kent Hill

With the number of countries now that have significant outbreaks of some sort, obviously there is more contact with human beings and that increases the possibility of ... a global human pandemic.

Victor Hugo

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.

David Hume

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

Baroness Orczy

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

Audre Lorde

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.

Dennis Banks

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Alain Badiou

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Alain de Botton

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

Charles J. Shields

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

Charles Kettering

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Al Franken

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

Maya Angelou

love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it

Tom Rath

You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.

Ted Cruz

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

Bram Fischer

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Peter Bergen

One meeting does not make a conspiracy. Saddam Hussein does not engage in these types of acts.

Alice Waters

She just had a very quiet way of speaking, and it really engaged you because she was so soft-spoken; you had to listen carefully. There was a kind of intimacy that you immediately had.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.

John Barton

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As you accept the responsibility to seek after truth with an open mind and a humble heart, you will become more tolerant of others, more open to listen, more prepared to understand, more inclined to build up instead of tearing down, and you will be more willing to go where God wants you to go,

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If the Savior were among us today, we would find Him where He always was-ministering to the meek, the downcast, the humble, the distressed, and the poor in spirit. During this Christmas season and always, may we give to Him by loving as He loves.

Blaise Pascal

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

Blaise Pascal

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Blaise Pascal

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Bill Hybels

I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.

Alexandre Dumas

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

Bret Boone

Last year was a very humble experience, but it's not the first time I've ever been humbled. It's a different situation than I've ever been in, but it's a game, it's life.

Audre Lorde

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

Jamie Zawinski

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Lauren Johnson

We have a real variety here and I think that is why residents like to come. This year there seemed to be more jewelry than anything else.

Leonor Varela

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Camille Pissarro

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Elizabeth Taylor

I love to be casual and comfortable, but I also love the easy glamour of wearing jewelry all the time.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

William Shakespeare

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

Denis Leary

I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me!

Diana Gabaldon

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

Charles R. Swindoll

No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore.

Chris Hernandez

Luckily, the Lord was with me, and I put them down.

Granth Sahib

Lord is all-powerful, the Master of all virtues

Lord of

Lord Elrond: You will unite or you will fall.

Margot Asquith

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Brandon Sanderson

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

Barbara Kingsolver

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.