Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Blaise Pascal

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Allan Bloom

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Alfred Korzybski

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Cornel West

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

David Cross

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

A great politician has great charisma.

Alexei Navalny

I'm only sort of a politician.

Billy Campbell

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Arlen Specter

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Farooq Abdullah

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

Douglas Alexander

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.