Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodor Mommsen

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.

Bob Morton

When I was a kid we really enjoyed their visits. They were so open and friendly and generous with the hugs, and they spoke with these thick accents. We loved listening to them.

Edmund Hillary

The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.

Eugenie Clark

I can't think of anything I regret. Everything I've done, I've enjoyed doing. I've had five husbands, four children. I've done it all, but mainly I've enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.

Candice Bergen

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Laura Mvula

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

Kenneth Branagh

For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'

Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

David Kim

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

Janna Levin

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

Edmund Burke

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

Barbara Kruger

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Catherynne M. Valente

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Steve Crump

What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards.

Blythe Danner

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Don Cheadle

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

Common

The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.

Jennifer Dunn

This is not a ripple effect. This is a tsunami.

Aasif Mandvi

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Stanley

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

Booth Tarkington

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

Diablo Cody

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Bryan Adams

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

Catherine Deneuve

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Bhagavad Gita

Scarcely any one of the striving, or even the perfected persons, truly understands Me.

Joanna Lumley

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Susie Orbach

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

Rachel Perry

I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.