Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Martin

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution

Alan Shepard

I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Charlotte Bronte

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Charles E. Wilson

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Charles Dickens

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Don Cheadle

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

David Shore

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

David McCullough

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

Brian Eno

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Dhani Harrison

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Janet Jackson

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

China Chow

I used to be more glamorous.

Chesley Sullenberger

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Brian Molko

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

Brett Favre

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Bernard Ebbers

I used practically all the money I had available.