Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Dave Barry

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Audre Lorde

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Charles Horton Cooley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Anthony Trollope

I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world

Brendon Burchard

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

Brian Tracy

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Deepak Chopra

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Charles Dickens

We are so very 'umble.

Kourtney Kardashian

I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

Bayard Taylor

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Harvey Weinstein

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Cynthia Weil

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

Jeff Trumbauer

He was a guy where we weren't daring him to shoot, but he wasn't probably the most threatening guy on the floor. He did a nice job and hit some big shots.

Gail Sheehy

I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

Bill Fennelly

I thought we were a little intimidated inside. They were guarding us one-on-one and daring us to go to the basket. We missed way too many inside shots.

Claude Debussy

It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?

Jim Calhoun

We have weaknesses; we know that. So we have to become an execution team, particularly on a team that comes up and ball-pressures us, a team that says 'beat me off the dribble.' And you can, but they're daring you and trying to take you out of your offense.