Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

John Whittier

Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.

Bible Bible

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Len Traubman

Picture Muslims, Christians and Jews, Palestinians, Israelis, Jordanians and Americans, all in a living room listening to each other, sharing hurts and hopes, and blessing one another. It was the perfect reflection of the holiday spirit, and of our motto of 'neighbors forever' and 'for all peoples, equally'.

Kirk Maltby

Maybe it's a blessing to come on the road. We've had a lot of success on the road this season. We seem to play a simpler game.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.

Aron Ralston

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

Poncho Broner

I think they got a little sour taste in their mouths from not winning that district title. I think that gave them a little extra hunger. They're not ready for their season to end. In hindsight, it might have been a blessing in disguise to not get that victory. I think it's made them more focused to try and get a nice run in before they're gone.

Randy Johnson

Jason was a one-man wrecking crew. Jason pretty much did it all himself today. I'm glad to see he's back on track and picked up where he left off in the second half of the season. It's a real blessing to have someone like that in the lineup.

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Ed Perkins

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Kurt Barnard

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Janet Reno

represented the joy and the wonder of life itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

C. S. Lewis

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Kelsey Grammer

It is always a joy to be nominated,

Bill Vaughan

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

Mira Nair

That's the joy I have as a filmmaker, that's what I love to do. I'm very fortunate.

Jean Killy

It is not an obligation but a joy

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

Billy Corgan

Everything about life makes me lonely.

C. S. Lewis

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Cecelia Ahern

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

Carrie Brownstein

I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces that are darker and dingier and more dangerous, more lonely. What comes out of there, to me, is the life force. I'm excited when the center reaches over to those places and pulls inspiration from them, and translates it for a lot of people.

Carl Sagan

What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

Bill Bryson

...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But here's an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Bertrand Russell

I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD

Matthew Shultz

I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

Ken Auletta

Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.

Tim Finchem

Stature is something that we don't determine. Others determine.

Tom Donahoe

Some have durability issues. Others haven't produced for more than one season. They're kind of all clumped together and no one has really separated himself.

William Butler Yeats

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Genghis Khan

It is not sufficient that I suceed - all others must fail.

John Connors

Like many others in the industry, we are seeing slowing PC sales as the quarter progresses.

Dolores Smitley

I was the one who was always telling the others how to do things because I had more experience.

Lalit Modi

If others want to play they can. Why should we play in October?

John Harris

That was a pretty big 2-iron, especially considering how poor the first two shots were,

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Gerry Byrne

For the record, this is a poor decision.

Unknown

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, and quick to make friends.

Augusto Pinochet

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

Vanessa Ferlito

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

Ernie Els

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

Michael Robinson

It is expensive, but as long as it's efficient, we'll spend the money.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Sam Huber

He doesn't like to run. He spends most of his time on the couch.

Wally Herger

Whatever is in Medicare, ... we're not going to spend it.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!