Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Dickens

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Charles Dickens

Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

Charles Spurgeon

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.

Chris Cleave

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

China Mieville

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

David Miliband

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

Mark Hulbert

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

Michael Steinhardt

Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds

Suze Orman

To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.

David Letterman

I'm still here. I knocked off another competitor.

Gordon Bethune

You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

Jeff Bezos

Obsess about customers, not competitors.

James Cash Penney

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

Tommy Hilfiger

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.

Thorsten Heins

You have to respect all your competitors.

Thorsten Heins

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.