Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sturt

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

Alan Watts

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Byron Katie

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Liza Minnelli

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Dick Costolo

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Cheryl James

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

John Gagliano

We're so proud of him. He's been a great leader and a great example for the other kids to follow. It's great for the program.

Atom Egoyan

When we first shot it, something very, very weird happened, and it's a good example of how things work intuitively or are improvised.

Charles Portis

Time just gets away from us.

Bradley Chicho

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Isobelle Carmody

The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.

Mary E. Pearson

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.

Dolly Parton

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Darren Gough

Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth

Paul Moroney

He coughed when he was back in the tie-up stalls after the race, but we suspected that was just grit down his throat and a scope later proved that was the case,

Laura Vandervoort

I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

John Sparks

He's a gritty player and as long as he can make the routine play, we'll be all right.

Suzanne Fields

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Rig Veda

Laziness begets nothing but failures and lost opportunities.

Brady Corbet

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

Thomas Dekker

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

Sathya Baba

If others must serve you, serve them first; love begets love; trust engenders trust.

Allison Jones

I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.

John Urquhart

What we've learned is graffiti ... begets more graffiti,

Muhammad Yunus

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Henry Fielding

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.