Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Swartz

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

Charlie Gonzalez

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Charlie Chaplin

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Charles de Lint

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Brian Chesky

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

Brian Cox

As we get older, things seem less important.

Brian Cox

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

Brian Eno

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Jane Fonda

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

Bill Murray

You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.

Bob Brown

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.

Elizabeth Bishop

Something needn't be large to be good.

Aya Cash

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

Brigham Young

Learn to be good for something.

Kurt Vonnegut

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Anthony Fauci

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Abdullah Gul

We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane.

Louise Leakey

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Jim Walsh

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.

Bhagavad Gita

Worshippers of the demigods go to the demigods, the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me (and are not born again).

Tom Snyder

Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors

Kate Forsyth

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

William Phelps

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

Joy Harjo

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.