Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Remnick

What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait?

David Hewson

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

David Brainerd

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

David Brainerd

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

Ben Wheatley

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

Audrey Tautou

I don't want to become more famous than what I am. I'm not interested in being in movies that are going to be shown all around the world and get a massive audience, so I'm interested in doing foreign movies as long as it stays an exceptional case and is exotic, but I don't want to go there[Hollywood].

Audre Lorde

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.

Arthur Rimbaud

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

Dennis Brown

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Bill Hybels

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Benito Mussolini

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

Brent Weeks

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Brandi Carlile

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

Ben Okri

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Bill Gates

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

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.

Denis Waitley

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

Denis Leary

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

Deep Roy

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

Deb Caletti

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

Charles Kingsley

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

Charles Colson

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.