Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Dave Mustaine

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Sebastian Thrun

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Bruce Rauner

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

Jeb Bush

trapped in failing schools. She reads at a fifth-grade level.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Diego Klattenhoff

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Robert Emmet

Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.

Phyllis Wise

Many of them have been more wonderful than we would have ever dared to hope for. I think that's what the most exciting part is - you just can't tell.

Michael Leunig

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Gary Weiss

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

Caroll Spinney

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

Charles R. Swindoll

There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Bible Bible

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.