Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Dave Chappelle

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

Catherine Deneuve

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Carl Icahn

I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Alan Sillitoe

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Charlie Munger

This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Anna Seward

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Eric Ries

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Jean Piaget

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Leo Tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Kate Morton

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

Philip James Bailey

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.