Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fixx

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Michael Pachter

My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing.

Robert Harris

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Tina Brown

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Edsger Dijkstra

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Warren Spector

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Drew Altman

Seniors still are having a hard time. Seniors still aren't really prepared, and they're going to need a lot of help to make the choices they need to make under the law.

Maajid Nawaz

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

Donna Moir

My hat's off to Mercy. They were on fire in the first half. We didn't get tired in the fourth quarter. We made some poor choices that ended up costing us.

Willie Randolph

Obviously, if you play games like that with the fans, they can come down harder on you. We all have choices to make and reactions to different things.

Charles Petzold

You probably don't have much of a choice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Edward Abbey

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

Earl Nightingale

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

Charles Spurgeon

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

Denis Kearney

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Source Unknown

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Leo Buscaglia

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

Edgar Allan Poe

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Catherynne M. Valente

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

Chinua Achebe

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.