Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Edward Halifax

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Granth Sahib

One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.

Chris Evert

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Chris Evans

I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Charles Spurgeon

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Rob Sheffield

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.

Rig Veda

One should respect his motherland, his culture and his mother tongue because they are givers of happiness.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Pamela Satran

Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

Dennis Prager

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

Edgar Mitchell

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

Leonard Mlodinow

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

Dominic West

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

Gunther Grass

Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people.

Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Chelsea Handler

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

William Shakespeare

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.