Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Charles Dudley Warner

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Cher

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

Albert Einstein

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alain Ducasse

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

Edward Young

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

Elijah Wood

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Iyanla Vanzant

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

Jean Charest

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

Harry Callahan

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

John Doerr

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

John Doerr

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.