Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

Carlos Castaneda

Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

Carlos Castaneda

Hunting power is a very strange affair. There is no way to plan it ahead of time. That's what's exciting about it. A warrior proceeds as if he had a plan though, because he trusts his personal power. He knows for a fact that it will make him act in th emost appropriate fashion.

C. S. Lewis

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

Agnes Varda

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

Agnes Repplier

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

Aaron Tveit

Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

Charlotte Bronte

Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.

Charlie Cook

Walking is simple and second nature for most of us. It's an everyday kind of activity, not something that's frequently the rage of fashion or touted for its sex appeal. Yet few physical pursuits in this life are ultimately as rewarding. It's a wonderfully satisfying way to spend an hour, and afternoon, a day, or longer.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Marissa Moss

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Thomas Mallon

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.

Tom Hulce

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

Brian Eno

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Richard Jefferson

We've spoiled people early. We could win the rest of our games, but we're going to be judged by how we play in the playoffs. This is good. This is great. But we understand that's how we're going to be judged.

Kevin Rahm

I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.

Frank Morgan

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Jacques Chirac

Those who want to sow violence of fear, they will be arrested, judged and punished,

Kamala Harris

I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Jose Antonio Vargas

My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.

L'Wren Scott

I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

Gary Bettman

I think we will ultimately be judged on our response and the message that it sends. This is not a part of our game, it has no place in our game, and it will not be tolerated in our game.

Dilip Shanghvi

Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.

Frans Houten

There are various merger and acquisition options that we can and will explore.

Michael Lloyd

If they screw it up, there probably won't be another rail merger approved, at least in my career.

Michael Coe

We see the rationale for this merger as separate and distinct.

Duncan King

There are so many more mergers going on now.

Edward Menashy

It has been another storming day with plenty of mergers and acquisitions activity.

Guy Moszkowski

Mergers and acquisitions have been very strong and produced a lot of ancillary financing.

Tony Fadell

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

Angela Braly

We get talent and scale from mergers.

Sirio Maccioni

I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.

Kacey Musgraves

I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Amy Heckerling

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Mark Logan

Scott's been out there from the get-go on how to make the online space profitable.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to grow,

Martin Nisenholtz

There comes a point at which you have to say, 'Where is the value equation?' when you are talking about online media.

Howard Rheingold

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

Gina Bellman

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Drake Bell

I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

Don Johnson

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

Alison Sweeney

Working towards something you're excited about - as opposed to something that makes you feel badly about yourself - is what will keep you going back to the gym.

Don Otto

Well, if they weren't opposed to this, I'd be worried.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

Carlos Ghosn

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

Carlos Castaneda

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

Charlie Chaplin

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Stephen Baker

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

Brian Weiss

Journey into the beautiful dream that is life...the end is only the beginning.

David Allen

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

David Allen

A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.

Dave Chappelle

I got a lot of positive people around me.

Joy Harjo

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Kenneth Branagh

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Adnan Badran

She (later) went on to Salt because one of her relatives

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

Aaron Tveit

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

Michael Collier

We're still in the preliminary stages of getting information.

Dena Crews

We're still in the development stage for that.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Bob Dylan

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get stage fright.

Geisha Williams

We're in the tough stage of the restoration.