Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Walter Pater

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.

William Hazlitt

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

John Dennis

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

John Eaton

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

Joel Edgerton

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Satyajit Ray

One of the reasons why some of my films seem so slow is because the soundtrack isn't expressive enough - maybe they need more sound or music.

Matthew Arnold

Eyes too expressive to be blue, / Too lovely to be grey.

Oscar Isaac

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

Phoebe Philo

My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.

Joe Caddick

Tim turned to me and gasped: 'Wow, did you see that?' I then unleashed a rather expressive swear word.

Philip Treacy

So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

J. Edgar Hoover

Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.