Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Bill Crawford

A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain't...

Bill Cosby

Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Bill Cosby

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Bill Cosby

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

Bill Cosby

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

Big Pun

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

C. S. Lewis

As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Mariano Rivera

starters having the kind of years that have won it before.

Isaiah Swann

Our spacing got kind of messed up. I tried to back it out, but I had to pick it (his dribble) up.

C. S. Lewis

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Carl Rakosi

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

Brittin Larsen

I was kind of stressed out. I thought to myself I've got to find something. I need to make a pitch.

Stan McCain

I think they are ready to get back at it. You can tell they are kind of tired because a lot of them are sitting around not doing a whole lot, or they ones that are doing something are ready to quit hauling limbs and play a little football.

Bertrand Russell

It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.

Eric Henderson

That's the kind of swagger we're playing with.

Bracey Wright

That's unheard of, to shoot that kind of percentage.