Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rhonda Britten

Release your attachment to the outcome. Invest fully in your intention. Stand for the truth. Keep kindness a priority.

Atharva Veda

Renounce your egotistical pride and your emotional attachment to Maya; focus your consciousness on the Lord's meditation. Says Nanak, this is the path to liberation.

Bharati Mukherjee

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

Atharva Veda

It is believed that the soul's attachment with the body remains until the dead-body is not destroyed completely.

Terry Belanger

I think that all of us have a sentimental attachment to books,

Jade Jagger

My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

Rob Halford

I'd like to feel that everyone would recognize that Judas Priest was the first true heavy metal band. I think there is a special attachment to Judas Priest and metal. We were the first band to really go out and claim ourselves to be a real metal band.

Tatiana Maslany

I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

Tara Brach

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

Dr. Hines

Spider is New York bound and ready to go. He understands the importance of this fight and is taking it very serious, despite the short notice.

Charles Grassley

Some of their recommendations are bound to be politically unpopular.Ê Cutting the home-mortgage interest deduction is an example.ÊBut it's important to have a comprehensive starting point that will get everyone talking and thinking,

Charles Grassley

Some of their recommendations are bound to be politically unpopular.  Cutting the home-mortgage interest deduction is an example. But it's important to have a comprehensive starting point that will get everyone talking and thinking,

Rick Warren

Our goal is to stay within the boundaries of God's plan for us.

Michael Polanyi

Responsible choice in a convivial setting controls the indeterminate powers of intelligence and sets the boundary conditions for their applications.

Bill Clinton

We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.

Carrie Fisher

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

John Davidson

I think there's also bound to be a lot of hesitation until the election is over,

Charles Dickens

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Ron Gardenhire

Rodriguez knew that if he made a mistake, he was going to get hurt. That was the presence we have been searching for. Having him there with a few other guys, there's a presence there that you have to make some pitches. It carries over and that was nice to see.

Josef Albers

Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Source Unknown

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

Matt Brown

I think the volunteers are a big key to Greensboro's success over the years. It's one of the most unique things you'll ever see. The people in this community are enthralled with the ACC and it carries over into the NCAA events.

Jon Heacock

That was too many carries this early in the season. He was getting tired in the second half. We've got to be smarter about how we do that this week.

Hugh Johnson

I think everybody knew this before, but this kind of takes it from the back page and moves it to the front page, ... He certainly carries a lot of weight in the market.

David Toms

I think he's got a lot of charisma, carries himself very well. I can just tell by the way he goes about his business, and he obviously can play golf pretty well, too. So he doesn't seem like he's intimidated by what's going on out here at all.

David Toms

I think he's got a lot of charisma, carries himself very well.

Ronnie Brown

I think for Carnell it's been a little tough from the standpoint of coming out of college, me and him splitting time, ... Then to come to a level like this and to have 37 carries and 26 carries on back-to-back weeks, that's pretty tough on your body.

Gerard Daffy

We took $10,000 on the Crows at $4.50, another $5000 at $4.30, and a steady stream of money since has forced them into $4.20 now.

Mike Stephenson

Since January 1, we've found four dead crows that tested positive for West Nile.

Irish Sayings

As the old cock crows the young cock learns

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Alan Vituli

Sure it's a loss, but losses are funny things, when thing are going well, any piece that drops out of the equation seems like a loss. But things often work out.

Kevin Kinel

Our focus has been on the state meet. I feel pretty good about going down to state. We'll have time drops there.

Nick Ferguson

I think it's the fact that the guy's so confident. He's the guy that all the cheerleaders want to be with -- he's one of those guys. If he was a drink, he'd be some fine cognac because that's how smooth he is. The way he drops back and reads, the way he passes the ball. He plays very poised -- doesn't seem to let anything rattle him even if you pressure him.

Andy Reid

It gets pointed at McMahon, but it's not all him. You can't have six or seven drops like we did Saturday.

Jay Greene

It does give us a perspective that we didn't have, which is the perspective of the student who drops out.

David McLean

I can tell you that we're not planning any price drops on Xbox 360 this year at all. The product doesn't need it.

John Updike

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Michael Strahan

He's confident. He can see it right now every time he takes a snap and drops back.

Rick Burkholder

People make all sorts of things out of them. Outdoor lamps. Fish aquariums. I had one in my living room for awhile.

James Connaughton

Our goal is to minimize, and where possible eliminate, the harvest of naturally spawning fish that provide the foundation for recovery.

Klaus Madinger

Our general season runs from the long weekend in May to October 31. This year, with the fish study and possible work on the dam, our season would run from June 15 until about the middle of August.

Rick Dunlap

People who like to fish are going to fish no matter what.

Carl Safina

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

Bruce Alexander

I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different.

Keith Hendrick

That was what he did, he worked. He didn't go fishing or hunting, he worked.

John Emmerich

It is of interest to the Game and Fish to participate in this project.

Jimmy Morgan

It don't get any worse than this. Nobody has anything left to fish with, even if the grounds was open.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

C. S. Lewis

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Carrie Brownstein

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

George Herbert

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot

Charles Kingsley

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Charles Darwin

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

Mark Oaten

Real opposition and principled opposition is about making a stand on this key issue of holding suspects without charge.

Clyde Guinn

Part of being a long-term holder is don't do anything you don't want to live with for a long time. The first tenet of that is don't overpay.

Kevin Payne

People have to look at the mistakes that keep being made, and we've got to hold ourselves accountable.

James Howell

Some hold translations not unlike to be / The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry.

Tony Blair

Our response to this should not be to run away and hide...but on the contrary--to hold firm,

Brent Guy

I'm hoping this week is going to hold up. We had about everything last year.

Dallas Green

Im Holding onto What i Hope Will Keep You by My side

David McFarren

Well as soon as it hit, everyone was a little nervous because Katrina was going right though New Orleans. All the phones are down, can't get a hold of him.

Zygi Wilf

I will hold everyone who is involved responsible for their own actions.

Chelsey Brown

I think this kite thing is really special.

Augusten Burroughs

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

Alan Cohen

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

David Benioff

I've never flown a kite.

Horace

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

Kate Bush

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Leonard Cohen

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Roger Vadim

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.

Karl Barth

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

Calvin Klein

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

Eli Khamarov

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Paul Wolfowitz

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

Dan McTeague

We tried everything we could to try to get him liberated well before the end of the 12-year sentence which he had received.

Primo Levi

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Alfred Mutua

It is another proud moment for the people of Kenya.

Carl Tobias

It is a momentous decision, and they need more time to think about it.

Bertie Ahern

It is a momentous day for the people of these islands, north and south.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Derian Hatcher

That was probably the single most embarrassing moment I've had in my career.

Billy Graham

We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever.

C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Thomas Hood

For one of the pleasures of having a rout, / Is the pleasure of having it over.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

Cecil Beaton

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Carl Sagan

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Carl Sagan

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Author unknown

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!

Anton LaVey

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

Ayn Rand

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

Cameron Crowe

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ben Harper

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Tom Byrne

We used to be an embarrassment. Now it turns out we're quaint.

Louis Mahern

We thought it was just aesthetic. Not load-bearing. Turns out that was not to be the case.

Lester Holt

But now I'm kind of like, 'Gee, I can't wait to watch it to see how it turns out.'

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Bill Paxton

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

Dean Koontz

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Giambattista Vico

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Henry Rollins

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Laurieann Gibson

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

Juliette Lewis

I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made.

Julie Burchill

Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause

Rick Riordan

Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?

Gail Porter

I'm always weeping at something or other.

Rebecca West

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

Miyamoto Musashi

I dreamt of worldly success once.

Wayne Dyer

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

D.J. Shockley

Really you can't do anything about it. It's one of those things you can't control. You can only worry about those things you can control.

B. B. King

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

B. F. Skinner

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

Bill Crawford

Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

Bill Crawford

When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.

Bill Cosby

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

Bill Cosby

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

C. S. Lewis

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

Cecelia Ahern

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there...