Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Coombes

Let us take up the burden of the fallen, set our hand to the task they left unfinished. Let us, with God's help, make the world a better, happier and brighter place.

Stephane Dujarric

Look on the bright side. Mr. Taylor is in jail. He's in the special court where he was indicted. We feel it's safe.

Chris Watson

Look on the bright side -- I got here and I got second, so I did my job. Next year, I'm gonna win this.

William Morris

Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we the living our lives are giving To bring the bright new world to birth.

Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don't want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always feels more like me, and a bright red lip is always a staple.

Cameron Russell

Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

Steve Wiggs

We did end up raising a little more than we were actually anticipating. As a result of that we will have to use less of the reserves than we had previously thought we would. So there is at least a little bright side.

Johnny Kidd

Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.

Jandy Nelson

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

David Horowitz

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

David Hume

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

Benicio Del Toro

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.

Ben Stiller

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Bear Grylls

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Audrey Tautou

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Arthur Schnitzler

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Dorothy Hodgkin

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Adam Lambert

I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.

Ellie Goulding

I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you've got salt crystals on your face. I love that, because it means you've worked really hard.

Platon

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

Isabel Yosito

Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!

Nikita Khrushchev

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

Nikola Tesla

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

Nikola Tesla

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

Oswald Chambers

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Wayne Abernathy

Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.

Charles Bass

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

Billie Jean King

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

John Hamilton

like I'm going to be in debt now for the rest of my life.

Zeng Jun

Leveraging on debts is definitely a useful method for gaining more wealth. The issue is, do you have your own set of risk management system to ensure you do not take on more debts than needed?

Eugene Fama

Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.

Jane Bryant Quinn

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

Cameron Mackintosh

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

Jeffrey Sachs

There is no doubt that Malawi needs 100 percent debt cancellation as soon as possible, and I will do everything possible to speed that up.

David Brainerd

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here until I was 20. I am not only Italian, I am partly Swedish. When my parents divorced, I was three years old and went to live in Paris... when I am offered a film in Europe, I come with great enthusiasm!

Bible Bible

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.

Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

C. S. Lewis

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

Thomas Cole

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

Bob Edwards

Murrow would be delighted that there are 24-hour news channels, but disappointed that during prime time all that they would be doing are these shout shows and Larry King instead of doing the news,

Paul McNamee

She's a delight and what a talented player,

Sandra Moore

She is pretty healthy for her age; she doesn't have anything major. She uses a walker by herself. She reads the paper from her hometown. She can really be a delightful person to be around.

David Hilbert

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

David Hume

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

David Hume

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

Audrey Tautou

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

Deborah Harkness

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Al Gore

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

Charles Kingsley

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

Charles Babbage

It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'

Charles Babbage

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Terry Francl

When the Midwest harvest gets into full swing and whether they'll be able to handle grain shipments then, that's going to be the true test.

Scottish Proverb

When the heart is full the tongue will speak

Todd Rundgren

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.

Kevin Mitnick

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

Skip Colcord

We're looking at the full gamut of alternatives.

Rob Manuel

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Bill Chapman

She had so much love. She was such a gracious lady.

Randy Roberts

She loves those volunteers. She's always gracious and kind and appreciative. It's obvious in the way she speaks to them and the way she treats them.

Brennan Manning

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

Alan Arkin

I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.

Terry Ryan

Kenny Williams has always been very gracious in talking about us, which is flattering. And he says he's doing things that we have done and so forth, and that's awfully gracious of him. But he's done a wonderful job over there.

E. Helm

He seems to recognize people. His manners are always intact. He is very gracious when people come to see him. He is his same self in a lot of ways. He just doesn't always remember.

Tim Roemer

He was cooperative, he was frank, he was gracious with his time,

Jane Smith

Those of us who worked with her thought that she was very gracious with her physical self, very gracious with the public. That included in airports, on sidewalks and in restaurants.

Shane Harper

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Rep. Gannon

For too long, it's been a hidden issue in Florida. It's a testament to our state that we're going to try to stop this.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

Tim Carter

There are so many things that can go wrong and so many hidden costs.

Don Hewitt

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

William Stafford

My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace. She knows where he is, that you can rest assured. He left that place with no shoes, no jacket. He didn't even take his money with him. He told his roommate somebody was picking him up.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace.

Ellen McLaughlin

The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.

Mike Viesca

She has served her time for now. She does not owe the state any more time. She will not be on parole or anything.

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

John Maynard Keynes

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Benedict Lucchesi

I don't know that I owe them an apology,

Joshua Jackson

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

John Lane

I think we owe it to them with what they did for us during Hugo,

Howard Dean

He got us into it. He owes it to the American people to get us out.

Matt Hasselbeck

Some of us Seahawks feel that we let the NFC down this past week. So we've got to step it up a little bit. We owe these guys.

Jane Austen

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Myrtle Reed

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

William Shakespeare

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

John Heywood

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

Charlotte Bronte

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Jane Hirshfield

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Dmitry Medvedev

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

Bruce Schneier

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

Brian Tracy

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.