Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Frederick Wiseman

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Ian Wilmut

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

Paulo Freire

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

Terence McKenna

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.