Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demosthenes

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

Dave Heineman

Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

Rob Clarke

We didn't harvest it, we didn't process it. We would never have knowingly distributed questionable material.

John McGinnis

We could harvest day after day after day.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Dr. Colosimo

You're looking at two little poke holes and a small incision to harvest the graft.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

Charles Caleb Colton

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

Baltasar Gracian

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Brian Jacques

A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus

Kevin Rahm

I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge.

Randy Pausch

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

Andrew Carnegie

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap,

Bible Bible

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Irish Proverb

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.

Lou Reed

You're going to reap just what you sow

Mac Miller

I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.

Charles Baudelaire

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

E. B. White

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Deepak Chopra

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Vandana Shiva

When you control seed you control food

Anthony Chan

I think the seeds are in place for a soft landing.

Henry David Thoreau

I have great faith in a seed.

Federico Garcia Lorca

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Mike Hayes

The seeds germinated, but as it leafed, it died, ... You'd come back a day later, and it would be dead.

Sylvia Hatchell

I don't think the other No. 1 seeds are having to do this.