Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Ron Low

We are not going to speculate on what may happen. The only certainty of next week is that the generators will continue to charge high prices for the power they sell to California.

Pliny the Elder

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Cynthia Covell

The only reason people want water rights is to have certainty to what their place in line is.

Rupert Adams

We have had inquiries all week but they reached a crescendo this morning - the odds suggest the happy couple are a certainty to get married.

Jonathan Band

Title Two, on the whole, is a good statute. It provides a degree of certainty for service providers, so that they know what their exposures are.

Pete Nicholas

We are providing the shareholders of Guidant with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.

Yehuda Berg

'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

Yehuda Berg

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Ellen G. White

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

debbie nicholson

the path of the wolf will guide you through the night

Chuck Close

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Nick Jonas

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Estelle

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

Erwin McManus

People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Everett Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Ezra Taft Benson

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.

Ellen G. White

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

Brad Shove

We pretty much lost this one in the first half. We played very poorly. We didn't put enough pressure on them. We had to do a better job of getting our hands up. They got too many open shots.

Vint Cerf

In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

Susan Sontag

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

Laura Slade Wiggins

When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.

Walter Benjamin

There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.

Terry Goodkind

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard

John Sacchi

Year and year out, Rider has a tough team. We're going to have our hands full.

Marty Miller

Yeah (we're excited), ... I've always sat in the bleachers. (At Del Mar) I must have shook 40 or 50 hands and was congratulated at least 100 times.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

Nicole Scherzinger

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

Tony Kaye

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Liam Neeson

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

Sally Kirkland

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

Vernon Duke

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

Brian Greene

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

Alan W. Livingston

I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Pete Wentz

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

Lin Loring

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

Lillian Bullock

We're like a tag-team. If she's not posting you up, I'm outside shooting the jumper.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Christine Ebersole

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

Meles Zenawi

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

James Howard Kunstler

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Millard Fillmore

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nydia Velazquez

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Kofi Annan

Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.

Francis Bradley

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Larry Coker

This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting.

Jim Stone

This puts them on the same side of the table as you,

David Whitehead

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

Chad Clanton

We're going to be ready for Katherine Harris. Or whoever the other side puts up.

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Jeff Long

Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.

Mike Erlandson

It puts him (Warner) in the top three on the stage for 2008.

Doug Tygar

We probably don't want to be relying on passwords as we do.

Lynn Schusterman

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Nicole Sullivan

My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.

Ryan Giggs

We can't just rely on Wayne and Ruud.

William Scott

We rely on each other to get through.

Alan Sillitoe

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create.

Martin O'Neill

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Samuel Butler

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Louise Woodward

I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.

Lynn Coady

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Andrej Kiska

I want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.

Hines Ward

Yeah. But if he catches you he will end your career, trust me.

Peter Sis

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

William Shakespeare

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Baz Luhrmann

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Karlie Kloss

Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

Kevin Smith

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.