Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Perry Barlow

The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.

Charles de Secondat

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

James Steel

Historically, the market has tended to exaggerate the impact of hurricanes.

Amy Hempel

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

Henry David Thoreau

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Newt Gingrich

I think people exaggerate the role that particular strategy had,

Bill Delahunt

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Larry Sabato

The only thing we can be sure of is that the party that wins will exaggerate the results, and the party that loses will downplay the results.

Daniel Pinkston

There are incentives for any state to exaggerate an external threat. If people feel insecure and have fear, they want to be protected. Even if you're living under wretched conditions, you think it is better than the alternative.

Proverb

The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another

William M. Thackeray

When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.

Dick Bennett

Because they score at the expense of their teammates.

James Farrell

Shopping is a pleasurable experience for many people; there's actually a hormonal release that makes us feel good. For some, shopping is a vacation, ... And the mall operators know that and spare little expense in market research to get them inside to shop.

Sharon Harrington

This would be a huge expense and very difficult.

Nestor Kirchner

We are not interested in exporting at the expense of the hunger of the people.

Marguerite Cotto

We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.

Chris McGinnis

You know, the hotels are going to go to all this expense of getting a hard wire into each room, and by the time they do that, everyone's going to be using wireless modems.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

L. Estrange

Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

William Shakespeare

Good things should be praised.

William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Jane Austen

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise.

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Thomas Nelson Page

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.