Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abba Eban

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Lucius Accius

Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.

Jane Smiley

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Chris Cleave

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

William Shakespeare

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Jane Horrocks

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

Diane Cilento

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

Desiderius Erasmus

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Kevin Henkes

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

Geri Halliwell

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

Michael Fitzpatrick

With Iran indicating on Thursday that they would not stop enriching uranium, fears of sanctions surfaced which probably prompted fresh speculative buying.

Phil Angelides

There is no justification for these executives to pocket over $300 million in payouts for just engineering a merger, ... enriching themselves at the expense of shareholders.

William Shakespeare

Who steals my purse steals trash: 'tis something, nothin', 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare

Who steals my purse, steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

Vinod Khosla

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

F. Sionil Jose

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

Billy Joel

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Tempestt Bledsoe

I love helping people put their homes in order.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Michael Chertoff

making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued.

Jack Campbell

There are the ones who have a lot of land and want to be annexed because they want the sewer to make the land more valuable and the lots smaller. Then there are the people with homes with working septic tanks that don't see why they should pay to hook into a sewer system they don't intend to use.

Michael Burgess

Nursing homes should be a last resort, and that's what a lot of this is moving toward.

Tom Morris

Getting people in homes is real important towards improving the quality of life in the parish.

John Ortberg

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

Hilaire Belloc

From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.

Charlotte Bronte

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

Charles de Gaulle

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Azim Premji

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

Brandon Cox

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Dick Armey

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

David Allen

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

David Cross

Maybe if you live in Brooklyn, you don't need to hear that? But please, trust me, in most of America, they do need to hear it. And they're quite thankful that somebody came out and did it. For an hour and a half in that theater, for once, they're in the majority.