Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope XVI

We know well that this truth risks being contradicted by the hedonism of the so-called well-off societies: Life is exalted as long as it's pleasant, but one tends to not respect it any more when it is sick or damaged.

Nicolas Boileau

Whether one is treating a light or an exalted subject, let the sense and the rhyme always agree.

Edmund Burke

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

Wendell Mayes

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Campbell Scott

To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, those who do not walk in the ways of sin, shall be exalted in the world hereafter.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Robert Herrick

And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head

Charles Spurgeon

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Marie Brennan

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Ma Kai

The outline reflects the general will of the public.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

John Noble

'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

John Eaton

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

C. S. Lewis

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

April Glaspie

We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

Brian Eno

I'm very opinionated.

Karl Lagerfeld

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Jane Austen

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Cher

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Agnes Smedley

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Jamie Cullum

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

Randi Miller

We're still going to be a politically independent paper. We're still going to be the paper for Boulder's young adults and serve that readership with our reporting and advertising.

Bertrand Russell

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Charlie Munger

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Juvenal

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.