Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

John Clare

We are pleased with the progress of our international operations, whilst we remain cautious about prospects in the UK, where we have experienced the slowdown in consumer expenditure.

Michael Morpurgo

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

Richard Kogan

What they've done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious ... but they haven't put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty, ... It's so large that we can't know if the problem is twice as great or a quarter as great as what they're saying.

Buddy Bell

We're hoping our starters give us more innings. All indications are they will. We want to be cautious with our bullpen.

Jason Richardson

Oh, we were stressed going into training camp, not knowing what's going on, being cautious on the floor, making sure you're not getting hurt,

John Stewart

There is cautious optimism that things are going to work out in a favorable light,

Mark McKechnie

September will be challenging for handset makers. We are generally cautious on the group.

Donna May

She was very cautious about locking her door and not letting people into her home that she didn't know.

Andrew To

Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate fears.

Kirk Talley

The one thing we don't want to do is embarrass anybody.

Bess Truman

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

Brent Weeks

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Dennis Prager

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

Brian May

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about

Elizabeth Bowen

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

James Blake

We're doing this for a living, trying to win. That's my goal. It's not to embarrass anyone; it's to go out and win.

Aldous Huxley

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Ray Moore

I don't want people to think this is a sleazy place. I'm not going to embarrass Liberty. I don't want a strip club, and you have my word that's not going to happen.

Alain Prost

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

Rod Wright

We're going to talk shutout this week. We're going to talk shutout next week. That's just our mentality as a defense.

Rod Wright

We're going to talk shutout this week, ... We're going to talk shutout next week. That's just our mentality as a defense.

Drew Brees

with the mentality of going out and scoring 40 points.

Steve Thompson

He's got that winning mentality and we need strong characters.

Pam Taylor

If the system's going to do what it wants with their grades, why should they even study? That's what their mentality is.

Aaron Gagnon

We had a shot mentality in the first game. In the second game, we moved the puck around too much and we weren't moving it too well.

Dave Mills

This year's team is a new team. But that is not the mentality our competitors will have (against) us.

Rafael Benitez

We need a new mentality in the Premier League, especially away from home, and when we have that, things will be much better for sure.