Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cobbett

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Joe Paterno

I thought we showed some greatness last night.

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Blaise Pascal

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Blaise Pascal

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Blaise Pascal

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Rhett Bomar

I did have my struggles, and I'm not going to shy away from that. But as the year progressed, I got more comfortable.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

A. J. Liebling

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

Colbie Caillat

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

Dorothy Allison

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Don Rickles

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

Ann Patchett

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Andrew Clements

I almost tell him that I'd never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing on a street corner. But it feels to personal. Yes, I'm shy, but why bring it to his attention? I'm too shy to talk about how shy I am.

Ana Beatriz Barros

Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.

Carroll Shelby

There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Augusten Burroughs

There's not enough of me left over.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Edward Abbey

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Adele

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

Alex Steffen

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We didn't love freedom enough.

Louis C. K.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.