Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fixx

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Michael Pachter

My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing.

Robert Harris

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Tina Brown

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Edsger Dijkstra

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Warren Spector

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Andy Stanley

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Lauryn Hill

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

John Calvin

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

John Calvin

In our good works nothing is our own.

John Calvin

The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

John C. Maxwell

Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind

Walt Whitman

I am large, I contain multitudes

W. H. Auden

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Ann Druyan

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Alex Van Halen

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.