Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

Donald Yacktman

Now that the worst lawsuits are fading it seems a golden opportunity to do that. Kraft is limping.

Landon Donovan

I looked up and (Glen) was kind of fading away. So I just tried to put it in a good spot and he finished it. I don't know if he meant to, but he finished it.

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Sophia Young

My shot wasn't falling. I was just fading away too much.

William Shakespeare

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

Michael Hensley

Your lives are fading in the shadows of time, but your legacy lives on,

Mark Steyn

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

Mark Zandi

The housing market is fading fast and the prospect is it will weaken further as rates move higher.

William Shakespeare

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

Houssaye Houssaye

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

Sir Blair

On Monday, if this (bill) is not passed, these men will be released. I think that would be a grave threat to national security.

Edward Abbey

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

Sarah Newton

If this hurricane had not happened we would not have had to spend money to do this work. But now, without their participation, we would be in grave danger.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

Sirus Nasseri

I think that would be a grave miscalculation by the U.S., and particularly by Europe,

Jalal Talabani

He killed people to protect them, ... He put hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves to protect Iraq.

Dave Otto

He'd probably be laughing in his grave about what the kids are doing here.

David Ricardo

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

David Hyde Pierce

There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.

David Horowitz

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

David Hockney

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

David Hume

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

David Draiman

Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

David Brin

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Alan Dershowitz

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Ben Fountain

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

Dave Baseggio

We're just trying a different approach. He wasn't going to play. We'll give him a little more rest and see if that makes the symptoms better.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,