Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Bob Geldof

My depressions aren't so much... depression's too heavy a word. I get very down and y'know, boredom is the key to it as I've said.

Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

David Mitchell

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

David Nevins

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Edgar Degas

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Charlaine Harris

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Charles Baudelaire

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Alexandra Adornetto

To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.

Albert Schweitzer

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

Charles Spurgeon

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

Dick Van Dyke

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

Diane Lane

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

Dennis Rodman

I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

Dennis Rodman

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

Dennis Prager

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Dennis Prager

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage