Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Bill Crawford

A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain't...

Bill Cosby

Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Bill Cosby

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Bill Cosby

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

Bill Cosby

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

Big Pun

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

C. S. Lewis

As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

Beeban Kidron

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

B. B. King

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

B. B. King

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

B. B. King

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Big Sean

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

Big Sean

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

C. S. Lewis

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

C. S. Lewis

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

C. S. Lewis

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

Bill Crawford

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

C. S. Lewis

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

C. S. Lewis

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

Cecelia Ahern

Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

Art Alexakis

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Fred Funk

For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Charles Jencks

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.