Quotes by Categories

Quotes with ARGUING Category

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

J. I. Packer

scripture limits arguing

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

J. Richard Clarke

explanation failure arguing

For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me...a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

J. Michael Straczynski

speak mind arguing

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

Jack Kingston

logical definitions arguing

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

Jack Straw

my-family arguing children

Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.

Patricia Briggs

persuasive arguing way

Quotes with WONDER Category

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

R. J. Palacio

doctors sound wonder

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

R. D. Laing

psychological suicide wonder

Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

Rachel Carson

drink wonder

The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

Rabindranath Tagore

significance unity wonder

If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?

Raffi

reverence ifs wonder

I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

Rainbow Rowell

machines use wonder

Quotes with GRASS Category

The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?

A. A. Milne

grass wonder spring

Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show

Banky W.

snakes cutting grass

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

Ed Koch

grass believe way

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

Edgar Fawcett

earth praise grass

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

Elias Hicks

blades-of-grass blades grass

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

Emily Dickinson

fellows grass

Quotes with ACTION Category

Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

J. Edgar Hoover

purpose action facts

Repentance is belief in action.

J. D. Greear

repentance belief action

The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.

J. C. Ryle

believer shows action

Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action

J. Willard Marriott

taking-action sides action

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

mystery action men

The burned hand teaches best.

J. R. R. Tolkien

growth action hands

Quotes with SIDES Category

So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.

R. K. Laxman

serious cartoon sides

Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.

R. K. Milholland

side-effects loving-someone sides

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

Rachael Harris

comic sides people

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

Rachel Joyce

small-moments sides years

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Rachel McAdams

woods sticks sides

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

Rachel Naomi Remen

exposed heal sides

Quotes with DONKEY Category

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

C. S. Lewis

treats legs donkey

...even the donkeys were quiet.

Christopher Paolini

donkey quiet

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

D. H. Lawrence

women donkey fame

Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.

Erich Ludendorff

lions leadership donkey

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Ernest Shackleton

lions donkey

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

dutch horse donkey

Quotes with FACES Category

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

J. B. Priestley

behind-you behinds faces

I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

J. B. Smoove

cutting faces trying

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

J. Irwin Miller

cost drug faces

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

J. D. Salinger

expression faces

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

J. G. Ballard

mask bites faces

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

J. G. Holland

form soul faces

Quotes with DRESSES Category

I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

A. J. McLean

no-fear louboutins dresses

Um,i'm going shopping for a dress for the Homecoming Dance with Miranda,Wyatt and Leif." Dank chuckled."So,Leif's wearing a dress?

Abbi Glines

homecoming shopping dresses

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

B. B. King

dresses want people

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.

Banksy

dresses people thinking

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

Barbara Corcoran

dresses want motivational

One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

Barbara De Angelis

change dresses yellow

Quotes with GLAD Category

As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.

Ralphie May

decision glad men

I was just glad to be going to work again.

Rebecca De Mornay

going-to-work glad

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

Rebecca Harding Davis

patriotic grandfather glad

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

Ray Bradbury

rags sadness glad

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Roger Ebert

fine kind glad

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

Roy Ayers

happened glad compliment

Quotes with HOUSE Category

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

J. C. Watts

white house believe

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

J. Milton Hayes

spots scene house

How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity.

J. Cole

bigs mom house

Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You can do it again. If your house burned down with all your work inside it, you would still be the writer you are, and you would continue to be worth something.

J. Robert Lennon

treasure proud house

In many, many ways... Hufflepuff is my favorite house.

J. K. Rowling

my-favorite house way

You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.

J. Robbins

support house jobs

Quotes with SAY ANYTHING Category

Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.

A. S. Byatt

ego real say-anything

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

Babyface

broadway shows say-anything

Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.

Dahlia Lithwick

hue judging say-anything

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

Ed Helms

care say-anything directors

Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.

Edmund White

say-anything writing two

Not that I feel like I have a lack of confidence, it's just good to stand up in front of people who don't really know what to expect. Am I going to say something? Am I going to sing? And often when I do say anything it gets a laugh, because everyone's already used to laughing. So I can seem like I'm actually a funny person.

Eleanor Friedberger

say-anything laughing people

Quotes with OXFORD Category

Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

aristocracy respect oxford

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Robert Darnton

1960s england oxford

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

Rowan Atkinson

python jewels oxford

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

Sadiq Khan

squares oxford tree

Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?

Terry Jones

oxford war country

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

Thomas de Quincey

tears oxford children

Quotes with CAMBRIDGE Category

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

Naomie Harris

cambridge culture

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

Stephen Fry

tweed grows cambridge

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

Syd Barrett

clean cambridge

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

Jo Cox

first university family cambridge

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

H. Jon Benjamin

public restaurants library cambridge

Quotes with WINNING Category

Sometimes to win, you have to change the game.

J. B. Bernstein

games winning sometimes

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

J. Paul Getty

benefits games winning

Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.

J.A. Redmerski

suicidal winning heart

Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.

Jack Brabham

winning sports world

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

Jack Campbell

cant-win winning trying

It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.

Jack Charlton

should-have winning soccer

Quotes with IMPOSSIBLE Category

The impossible isn't a limitation, it's an invitation.

J. M. DeMatteis

invitations limitation impossible

Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues

Jack Goldstone

migration issues impossible

It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.

Jack Paar

dislike-me dislike impossible

It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God.

Jack W. Hayford

word-of-god worship impossible

You can't separate the mind and body. It's impossible.

Jack LaLanne

body mind impossible

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

Jacques Lacan

real impossible way

Quotes with DREAM Category

Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap 'em. It's the only way you'll be able to fly.

J. C. Hutchins

dream war past

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

J. Christopher Stevens

journey dream people

There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

J. D. Sedding

dream time believe

Dreams don't come true, they are true.

J. Ivy

dream

A fine shiver coursed over my skin. "Seth?" "Yeah?" "You were in my dream." One amber-colored eye opened. "Please tell me we were naked." I rolled my eyes. "You're such a perv." He sighed mournfully as he wiggled closer. "I'll take that as a no." "You'd be correct." Unable to fall back to sleep, I started chewing on my lip. So many worries surfaced at once that my brain spun.

J. Lynn

dream sleep fall

Do just one thing every day in the direction of your dreams.

J. P. Blake

your-dreams just-one dream

Quotes with FIFTY Category

It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

R. B. Braithwaite

amusement fifty years

Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

Rachel Marsden

fifty sleep people

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

Ralph Steadman

fifty animal years

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

Randy Bachman

singles perseverance fifty

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

Ransom Riggs

fifty jobs directors

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

Raymond Chandler

common-sense fifty years

Quotes with YESTERDAY Category

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

B. Traven

yesterday today people

I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.

Barack Obama

energy yesterday needs

The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

B.K.S. Iyengar

yoga yesterday today

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.

Carl Holmes

yesterday giving ideas

Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.

Carl Sandburg

done yesterday may

What is that hair? So yesterday.

Carly Fiorina

yesterday hair

Quotes with COMPLAINING Category

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

J.A. Konrath

quitting complaining positive

I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

Jack Cafferty

bother answers complaining

I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

Jack Canfield

government complaining inspirational

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

Jack Vance

useless complaining reality

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

Jack Nicholson

mates complaining

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

Jackie Kennedy

first-lady should complaining

Quotes with OPPOSITES Category

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

Jack Levine

disappointment race opposites

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

Jack Kemp

serious real opposites

The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

Jack Kirby

ambition opposites average

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

Jackie Pullinger

impatience unbelief opposites

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

Jack Nicklaus

player opposites golf

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.

Jaco Van Dormael

opposites play moving