Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Harrison

A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.

Jim Bolla

We did not dwell on it. We're 80 percent in practice. I think last Saturday was just one of those games.

Lynda Resnick

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

Jane Austen

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

Jane Seymour

Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing therell be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

William Blake

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwellThere God is dwelling too.

John Tortorella

We're good as far as our mindset, but Ottawa turned it up a notch. So we have to eat it and try to get better. There's no sense of dwelling over it.

Bertolt Brecht

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Guru Singh

Worship the True Guru day and night, He leads us the meditate on the Lord of the Universe, the Master of the Universe.

Granth Sahib

Lord,Protector of the World; the Inaccessible Lord God; the Guru abides there as well.

Rig Veda

There are two ways by which knowledge can be imbibed- from an able guru and self study.

Granth Sahib

One who recognizes the Guru practices Truth; why should he be afraid?

Ram Dass

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

Guru Singh

Those who serve the True Guru and remain wakeful, are imbued with the True Name, the treasure of virtue.

Granth Sahib

When the True Guru is pleased and satisfied, O Nanak, the True Name is obtained.

Granth Sahib

When the True Guru is merciful, you will never grieve. When the True Guru is merciful, you will know no pain.

Granth Sahib

Those who do not serve the True Guru waste away their lives in vain. O Nanak, the Lord does just as He pleases. No one has any say in this.

Carol Shields

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Carlos Castaneda

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Agnes Martin

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Alan Sugar

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

Alan Keyes

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Alan Keyes

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Charlotte Bronte

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

Charlotte Bronte

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Bronte

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Richard G. Scott

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Cher Lloyd

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Daryl Kimball

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.