Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Richard G. Scott

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Edmund Burke

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

Edsger Dijkstra

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Barack Obama

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

Brother Lawrence

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Bryant H. McGill

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Eliot Seide

The people who were put out of work were pawns in a very nasty and unnecessary political game.

Elizabeth Kostova

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Deborah Grey

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

Ayelet Waldman

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Michael Boyd

I don't know who's going to live or who's going to die. But we do know this: it's going to be a very nasty competitive mess.

Tony Graffanino

He's got the makings of being a nasty closer.

Michael Barnett

Hmm. This could actually be a nasty storm.

Anthony Lake

It is nasty and brutish without being short,

Alejandro Thiermann

It can be done. The only question is will this nasty virus give us the time.