Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Kleypas

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

Vera Brittain

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Dave Greenberg

We're competitive now. We struggle to score. That's why every possession is so valuable to us.

John C. Calhoun

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Albert Camus

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Dan Davis

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

David Platt

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

David Platt

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Gina Bellman

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Garson Kanin

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Julie Andrews

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.