Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen West

There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

Napoleon Hill

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!

Ayn Rand

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose...

Gordon B. Hinckley

I would like to suggest to you that you 'grab life by the horns' and do not let life grab you by the horns. You take control of your lives. … Do not let life control you. … Take charge. Rise to the divinity that is within you.

Jim Henson

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

Jeffrey Gitomer

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

Ethan Hawke

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

Michael Dolan

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Studd

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Charles Stanley

You may have the gift of giving.

Charles Spurgeon

I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

David Pogue

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

Bill Murray

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Boman Irani

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Juvenal

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

Bruce Sterling

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

Bruce Sterling

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Anne Hutchinson

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.