Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Carlos Castaneda

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Carlos Castaneda

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carl Andre

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

C. S. Lewis

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

C. S. Lewis

Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

Agnes Martin

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

Rig Veda

The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.

Elie Wiesel

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Baha'u'llah

Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.

Brendan Behan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Juvenal

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Juvenal

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

Lech Walesa

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Blaise Pascal

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

William Shakespeare

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

Brent Weeks

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Brandi Carlile

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Ben Okri

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

Bill Gates

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Bill Hybels

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.