Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Beverley Mitchell

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Cyril Cusack

It is plain to me now that the Irish Producers, quite as strongly as the Critics, have neither sympathy nor understanding of my mode of playwriting.

Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Tennessee Williams

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Mack Brown

We'd like for those two guys to get settled and started and learn the offense before they are criticized.

Frank Clarke

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism.

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism. We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism, ... We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Antoine Rivarol

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Aristotle

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Bill Crawford

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

Bill Cosby

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Phyllis Maxwell

I let her up here as long as she will tolerate it.

Gary Mickelson

We do not tolerate discrimination in the workplace.

Jim Yonts

We will not tolerate the kind of behavior.

Michael Chertoff

We will not tolerate lawlessness, or violence, or interference with the evacuation,

Kevin Marino

It's improper, it's unwarranted and I will not tolerate it.

Pete Williams

At least as long as we can tolerate each other.

Jane Rule

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Mike Ditka

In life, you get what you tolerate.

John C. Maxwell

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

Bertrand Russell

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

Bertrand Russell

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

Tanja Frieden

I was stoked he did well (Thursday). We always say let's have a podium together. To do it here is wicked cool.

Ajay Naidu

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

Charles Portis

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

Antisthenes

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

English Proverbs

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

A. J. P. Taylor

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

David Berg

Heaven would be a very hell to a wicked person.