Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Mann

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded.

C. S. Lewis

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

C. S. Lewis

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

C. S. Lewis

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

Agnes Martin

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

Charlotte Bronte

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

Charlotte Bronte

There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?

Charles de Gaulle

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

Charlie Chaplin

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Demi Lovato

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

Demi Lovato

Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features... everyone has them.

Demi Lovato

You're beautifully and wonderfully made.

Demi Lovato

Be proud of who you are.

Demi Lovato

No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.

Demi Lovato

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks as long as you're happy.

Jane Addams

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Dirk Benedict

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Brigham Young

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

Brendon Burchard

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

Alain Badiou

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,

Dusty Springfield

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

Anthony de Mello

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Cole Porter

What moments divine , what rapture serene.

Alexis Knapp

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.