Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charles Frazier

Verbs. All of them tiring.

Brian Eno

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Chuck Palahniuk

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

Carl Sandburg

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

Anne Carson

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Jimmy Carter

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Franz Liszt

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Gretel Ehrlich

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Evelyn Underhill

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.

Janis Joplin

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

Chuck Palahniuk

We all have some proper noun to blame.

Benjamin Whorf

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Gertrude Stein

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Florence Nightingale

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Fiona Shaw

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

Joe Biden

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

Martha Graham

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.