Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Bernard Barton

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

Anton LaVey

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Al Gore

A leapord never changes his stripes.

Charles Kettering

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

Too many piglets not enough tits.

Jean De La BruyFre

There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.

Bruce Catton

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Kelly Rowan

We never know what's going to happen. It's always a surprise to us too,

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

Stephen McPherson

I was a little surprised to see another 'Apprentice',

John Stocco

I was a little surprised by the call, but it was unbelievable.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Les Funtleyder

That was the first upside surprise for Merck in a long time.

Joe Mazzella

That surprised me. He's getting better and better all the time.

Michael Morris

I think we all were surprised by the price.

Carl Everett

I think we're going to surprise a lot of people.

Bertrand Russell

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bryant H. McGill

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Catherine Ponder

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Catherine Ponder

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Earl Nightingale

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Albert Einstein

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Adolf Hitler

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Cornel West

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

William Blake

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.