Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

C. S. Lewis

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

Catullus

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Cecelia Ahern

"What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'"

Beth Riesgraf

Passion. Confidence. Gratitude. The possibility of making positive change in the world. It's the sort of "spark" one gets the moment they decide to go after what they want, really fight for it, work hard, and not give up. I love that spark; it's beautifully contagious.

Antoine Lavoisier

I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.

Bill Vaughan

Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

Bill Bryson

If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.

Bertrand Russell

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

Andre Patterson

Our line should get a lot of credit. We've been saying all week that we wanted to have the eye of the tiger and we did that. We want to have it all year.

Paul Jacobs

Sprint often tries many technologies. In the end, we tend to see eye to eye about what the technology road map should be.

Kari Williams

Starting out, they had puffy eyes. I didn't know if they could see the basket.

Tim Grant

Our son was over there 10 years ago, and we worried about him all the time, not knowing. This time, with me there and (Sarah) there, (Susan) was more relaxed knowing that I was there to keep an eye on her.

Dan Gorbett

Over 25 years I've never gotten over seeing the tears and heartbreak in kids' eyes when you lose. Unless you win a state championship, you will have kids that have been crushed. You never get over it.

Ben Roethlisberger

Rodney Harrison. He's a guy we have to locate and keep our eye on because he's going to give a lot of things away, hopefully.

John Donne

Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.

Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Nicky Hilton

Paris is really young at heart - I'm the older one in the relationship. I'm always telling her not to do stuff. If she's wearing something really silly, I'm like, "Don't go out wearing that.

Gerard Warren

Part of me is still in Cleveland. But that's the past. My heart and my mind are in Denver.

Dan Savage

Our people love this product. They put their heart into their work every single day.

Mike Scioscia

Our starting rotation has been the heartbeat of our club,

Vincent Millay

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.