Quotes of Cast - somelinesforyou

“ Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. ”

- Bible

“ Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ”

- David Garrick

“ The art of stamp-collecting is to get a number of good stamps, not to get a good number of any stamps. ”

- Unknown

“ The postage stamp is a flimsy thingNo thicker than a beetle's wingAnd yet it will roam the world for youExactly where you tell it to. ”

- E. V. Lucas

“ Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“ There's more that will unite you than will divide you, as long as you realize there are projects in Nebraska and projects in Kansas and New York and what have you. ”

- Ben Nelson

“ And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. ”

- Bible

“ Here's to the wings of love, may they never molt a feather, till your little shoes and my big boots are under the bed together. ”

- Unknown

“ In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. ”

- Dave Barry

“ It would be nice to really shed the corsets. ”

- Helena Bonham Carter

“ You were not brought into the life with limitations. Limitations having cast upon us like a net and we must cast them off. ”

- James R. Ball

“ We should use the commission's recommendations as a thoughtful and informed guide. That does not mean that this committee will be a rubber stamp,... The final shape of our restructuring legislation will be determined by what we learn at these hearings. ”

- Susan Collins

“ The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit — not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, 'If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in. ”

- Theodor Reik

“ To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. ”

- Homer

“ Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ”

- Ovid

“ Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. ”

- Anonymous

“ Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind. ”

- John Dryden

“ For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ Alea Iacta est… ”

- Julius Caesar

“ Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. ”

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

“ The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ Jacta alea est. ”

- Julius Caesar

“ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. ”

- Psalm

“ One must never be eccentric. If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly. ”

- Count of Monte Cristo

“ Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. ”

- Bible
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