Catch Quotes - page 8

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become. (Marcel Proust)
There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life-life's "experiences"-are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side. View quote
Mark Twain
I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there. View quote
Jack Osbourne
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up. View quote
Max Schmeling
Whenever I hear of culture ... I release the safety catch of my Browning! View quote
Hanns Johst
As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, "Father, I am falling!" and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn. (John Keats)
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. View quote
Martin Buber
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions. View quote
Thomas Edison
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it. View quote
Henry Ford
In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. View quote
Karl Marx
Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department. View quote
Ernest Rutherford
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i. e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life. View quote
Salman Khan
And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. (John F. Kennedy)
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
...if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous”, "hypogeum”, "plangent”, "irrefragably”, "glozening”, "tellurian”, "conclamant”, sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual. View quote
Randall Jarrell
As, when one torch has been fired, flame is transmitted to all the neighbouring candlesticks, without either the first light being lessened or blazing with unequal brilliance on the other points where it has been caught; so the saintliness of a life is transmitted from him who has achieved it, to those who come within his circle. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes. View quote
Anne Rivers Siddons