Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Denzel Washington

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

Anthony Burgess

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

Oswald Chambers

Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.

Oswald Chambers

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

Jack London

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

Emanuel Steward

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Carlos Mencia

Do not encourage my behaviour.

Kamal Ahmed

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

Chester Brown

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

Elie Wiesel

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.

Bill Vaughan

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Bill Vaughan

Contraries are cured by contraries.

James Corden

When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It was just a social club on Sundays where people would meet up with their mates.

Noreena Hertz

We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector.

Michel Faber

Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.

Bret Easton Ellis

No one ever likes the right person.

Buddy Valastro

Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal

Louise Nurding

I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.

Joe Montana

You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

Kourtney Kardashian

I know my mom always likes to give the over-the-top 'wow' pieces at baby showers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Chick Corea

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Martin Jacques

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.

Bruce Campbell

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling.