Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

Alan Watts

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Alan Moore

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

Chloe Sevigny

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

Chogyam Trungpa

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

Chin-Ning Chu

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

David McCullough

Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special. Because everyone is.

David Guetta

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

C. Wright Mills

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.

Louis D. Brandeis

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Samuel Schmid

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

Carly Fiorina

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

Francis Quarles

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

Horatio Nelson

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

Lajos Kossuth

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Soren Kierkegaard

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Charles Spurgeon

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

David Talbot

Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

Campbell Newman

Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Louis C. K.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

Dennis Brown

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Elizabeth Olsen

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

Charlotte Bronte

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

Chi Chi Rodriguez

I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed.

Bill Ayers

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.