Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

Kurt Vonnegut

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Mason Cooley

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

Kofi Annan

If the U.S. and others were to go outside the council and take military action, it would not be in conformity with the charter.

James Richardson

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Eric Hoffer

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone

Bennett Miller

The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see.

Shane Koyczan

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

James A. Baldwin

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Albert Camus

With rebellion, awareness is born

Andy Stanley

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

H. Rap Brown

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

George Eliot

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Francis Bacon

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Henry David Thoreau

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

Henry David Thoreau

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

Milan Kundera

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Josh McDowell

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.