Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Challenger

We are definitely going to see downsizing. There just isn't going to be a need for people to the degree that was required in the boon years.

John Challenger

We are definitely going to see downsizing, ... There just isn't going to be a need for people to the degree that was required in the boon years.

Roy McFarland

Wayne is having a good season and his wealth of experience is a really boon for our younger players - both on and off the pitch.

John Cassavetes

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

Don Phillips

Joe's decision ... is a great boon for our business. Frankly, it made little sense to me that he left in the first place.

Jozef Straus

Had we not done what we did, and told customers when there was a boon that I didn't want to do it because I didn't want to fire 5,000 people, some little guy would have got the business.

Michael Panzner

Sure, lower rates might offer another brief respite in an environment that has seen increasing dollops of profit-warnings and negative economic news recently, but when that is all said and done, a poor operating environment is unlikely to be a boon for corporate profits -- or U.S. shares prices -- in the months ahead, ... The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle.

Ron Ranson

This was a tremendous boon to the students to have these professional actors working with them, ... It was a wonderful mix.

Mark Knox

There's no doubt that everyone has various agendas. But whatever their agenda, Microsoft's support has been a huge boon to HD-DVD.

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly trick possessed.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.

Charles Spurgeon

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Karl Pilkington

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.