Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Brian P. Cleary

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

Luke Evans

I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.

Mahathir Mohamad

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Maimonides

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Florynce Kennedy

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Buzz Bissinger

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Enya

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Philippe Starck

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,

Peace Pilgrim

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

Bill Oliver

We're sorry that this happened. We take every precaution to prevent these things from happening.

Fred Smoot

We're just taking a precaution to make sure I'm ready for Sept. 11.

Pat Gallagher

Security isn't so much a problem in the school, but this is another precaution that we can take.

Jim Hunter

We want to be safe. It's more of a precaution than anything else.

Jim Hunter

We just want to make sure we have a good, safe race. It's really more of a precaution than anything.

William Cooper

We'll know more when we can do more testing, ... This is strictly a precaution right now but it's better to be safe than sorry.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

John Asher

It's prudent to take every precaution you can.