Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Barbara Kingsolver

Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

Channing Tatum

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Edward Abbey

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

Adam Smith

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Judy Parfitt

That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then - the person is still with you. With dementia, there's no conversation; there's no togetherness, no sharing.

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Javier Solana

We are going tomorrow to get very serious on Sudan.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,