Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charlotte Bronte

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Jennifer Pizer

What makes it discriminatory is that it requires women to present themselves in a particularly feminine way.

Kevin McDonald

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

Antonio Gates

When I'm in a game, something might be hurting, like a finger, and this sounds so feminine to come to a trainer and be like, 'You know, my fingernail hurts,'

Tracy McMillan

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

Lenny Kravitz

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

Angela Merkel

Never before in my political life have I been taken so seriously as woman as in the past few months. ... In return, I have publicly recognized my feminine identity to an unusual measure.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

Seamus Heaney

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

Rachel Cohn

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

Eamon

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Brigitte Bardot

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

David Bowie

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

Ani Difranco

I still define myself by the places that I've been.

Alec Baldwin

I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.

Jason Alexander

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Antonio Davis

I'm still doing something I love to do.