Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beatrix Potter

Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

Beatrix Potter

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Arnold Bennett

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Charles Kingsley

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

Charles Darwin

But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Alan Dershowitz

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Charles Darwin

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Blaise Pascal

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Blaise Pascal

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

Blaise Pascal

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Jane Bryant Quinn

hindsight is not a strategy.

Ray Richmond

My 17-year-old son is planning to see the 6:00 p.m. screening on Thursday in a suit and tie, ... He said he's planning to go to another screening immediately after...He wants to see the movie twice on the same night.

Larry Jones

Me and my wife are planning a 10-day vacation soon.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Benjamin Franklin

Success is the residue of planning.

Herb Williams

Right now, I'm planning on coaching. I couldn't tell you how well he is or he isn't. He really hasn't said anything.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Larry Beinfest

We're concerned, ... We want to make sure we have the infield covered.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

John Small

She didn't do the crime, but she sure can do the thyme!

Pat Bowlen

So I'm not sure what we'll do in Orlando, but I know now we can get down to some other things.

Marco Tempest

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Carson McCullers

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Ted Morgan

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Luke Bracey

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Sandra Lee

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

David Brooks

[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Denis Waitley

Each week set 1 day aside to do something you've always wanted to do.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Al Yankovic

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

Billy Boyd

The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Jason Blum

I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.