Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

August Wilson

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Diane Watson

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

Terry Belanger

making the world a more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book.

Bret Easton Ellis

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Arlen Specter

When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Eduardo Paes

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

Charles Caleb Colton

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Charles Caleb Colton

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Charles Stross

Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Spurgeon

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Bill Maris

Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.

Chris Swecker

It is a pervasive problem and it's on the rise.

Carl Whitehead

This is unfortunately a serious problem. It is a pervasive problem.

Elizabeth Warren

There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.

Beth Givens

It just points out how pervasive these security breaches are.

Charles Studd

I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

Charles Stanley

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

Alan Watts

The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

Alan Rickman

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

Alan Moore

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

Alan Cooper

Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

Chris Carmack

I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.

Chris Abani

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

David Fuhrer

We started out sluggish. But they are just cool. They had it under control. I think I worried more than they did.

Bobby Jindal

I'm not worried about where Barack Obama is from. I'm worried about where he's going.

Steve Mariucci

Man, if we're worried about him, we got a real problem, seriously. If anybody's going to be jacked up it's probably going to be him. I'm not worried about him. They're probably doing worse than we are.

Craig Fairbrass

I've never Worried about being typecast - I've only ever Worried about being not cast!

Elizabeth Edwards

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

Donald Berwick

I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

J. Horton

We were all kind of worried about him. But we had to go on with the game.

Wislawa Szymborska

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.

Pat Riley

One thing I'm not worried about is our rebounding.