Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Vorderman

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it.

Carlos Boozer

There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.

C. S. Lewis

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

C. S. Lewis

At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

Agnes Obel

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

Agnes Varda

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Aaron Tveit

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

Aaron Sorkin

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Alan Sugar

There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.

Richard G. Scott

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

Brian Wilson

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul.

Bram Stoker

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Alan Watts

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

China Machado

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

Cher Lloyd

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

Elif Safak

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

Edward Ruscha

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Juvenal

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

Bill Walton

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Aristotle

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

C. S. Lewis

Selfishness has never been admired.

Ludwig von Mises

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Dalai Lama

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

Albert Camus

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

David O. McKay

The basis of all sin is selfishness.