Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Sergio Perez

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Callie Khouri

I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

James Loy

We have no choice but to open any bags that raise concern,

Tove Jansson

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

David Crosby

CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.

Dave Barry

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

David Suzuki

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

Joanna Lumley

I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.

Mike Stringer

We're in a hazardous occupation, so safety's our first concern. We're taking sleeping bags and stuff. So if it's hotels, great. It could be tents.

John Beilein

We have ice bags taped to players all over the place, but we had guys step up and so, we keep playing.

Brigitte Nielsen

I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

Agnes Smedley

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Jamie Cullum

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

Randi Miller

We're still going to be a politically independent paper. We're still going to be the paper for Boulder's young adults and serve that readership with our reporting and advertising.

Bertrand Russell

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Charlie Munger

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.