Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Wagner

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Charles Dickens

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Charles Dickens

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Brian Dawkins

I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied.

Brian Eno

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

David Sedaris

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

Al Ries

It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place

Cheryl Strayed

Wanting to leave is enough.

Charlaine Harris

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Barbara de Angelis

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

Casey Stengel

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

Ellen Gerton

She's really shown wonderful skills. Her only downfall is she's short.

Mark Krause

We didn't play well defensively. It's been our downfall all year.

Rob Shepard

We had too many turnovers in the first quarter that pretty much started our downfall from the beginning. We panicked too much in the first quarter and we weren't really running our offensive sets that well.

Parvesh Cheena

My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.

King Tuff

That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.

Rob Guinn

We took a lot of dumb penalties. That was our downfall in this series. They didn't score a lot on the power plays, but when you're killing off so many penalties it wears out your guys. That was the difference; they had legs and we didn't. And they played smarter than we did. That's why this series is over.

Sylvia Hatchell

I think right now that's probably the downfall of the NCAA tournament.

George Foreman

We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome.

Mike Lawrence

There's no question that the downfall of the Republican Party rests squarely on George Ryan's shoulders.