Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Withers

I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.

George R. R. Martin

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

Peter Lynch

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Paula White

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

J. K. Rowling

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Laini Taylor

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Roberto Bolano

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

Veronica Roth

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Bible Bible

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly.

George Herbert

Folly growes without watering.

Jean de La Fontaine

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.