Darned Sight Quotes & Sayings

I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen. — Luis A. Ferre

Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible. — Edith Schaeffer

Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either! — Albert Hammond Jr.

Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth. — Harry Haskell

The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afterwards, as the Moslem armies advanced Westwards from the Arabian Peninsula, somebody had the prescience to build a small Mosque in its courtyard to guard against it being burned or demolished. At the time of the Crusades it was the turn of the Monastery to protect the Mosque, and so it has been down the ages, each House of God extending its shelter to the other as opposing armies came and went. — Ahdaf Soueif

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. — Thomas Willis

The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this [vote on same-sex marriage] out there. — Tony Abbott

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world. — Henry A. Kissinger

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. I don't know if you remember the Bee Gees. My mom took me. I was little. But my mom was a big disco fan, and - my mom took me to the Bee Gees. Looking back now, it's pretty embarrassing if your first concert was with your mom. — Rob Huebel

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies. — William Golding

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. — Irving Babbitt

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders. — Dorothy Day

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. — Joel Sternfeld

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time. — George R R Martin

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far. — Jonathan Ames