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.

Richard Greene

LBT pushes the state of the art in telescope performance, and it is a tremendous honor to be named the director. I'm excited by the challenge of completing the ambitious vision and satisfying the partners' scientific aspirations for this powerful, path-finding telescope.

Jack Greenberg

McDonald's is proud of the tangible difference we have made for the environment in just 10 years. As we head into the new century, McDonald's will continue to set new, ambitious targets for environmental progress.

Doug Scofield

No, not really. Even with this ambitious schedule, there is plenty of time to do other things. We just want to do it early and often and around the state.

Jacques Diouf

None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people.

Chris Evert

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Rowan Woods

On one level it is quite an ambitious sprawling narrative.

Michael Learned

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Scott Turow

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Guus Hiddink

I'm an ambitious coach and I want to be successful here in Russia. There is a lot of technical potential within Russia's national team and if the players are aware of their potential I think they can increase their level.

Albert Schweitzer

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Simon Crean

Loyalty and respect for contribution do matter. They are principles I seek to uphold.

Keith Bridges

Mike is the nicest, most sincere, loyal person you could possibly want to know.

Mark Twain

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders.

Elbert Hubbard

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

Dick Van Patten

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.