Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Janeway

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

Elias Canetti

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Arthur Helps

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Darren Johnson

There is a real danger that the public will not heed official advice to stop wasting water if they continue to see the water company as the biggest culprit.

Mark Twain

There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned: Adivce to the Youth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult

There are some post-graduate courses available in New Zealand, and we can give people advice on how to get started,

Emmanuel Jal

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

The on-year rise in core CPI backs up our forecast of an exit from quantitative easing in April of next year, but the market's interest has shifted to the timing of an interest-rate hike.

We did receive incorrect information that was provided to us, and we made the decision to loan the money based on the financial statements that were presented to us. It's apparent that there are some discrepancies in those financial statements and the recommendations were for us to get legal advice and we're doing that.

Richard Boucher

We have plenty of warnings for American citizens around the world, and it's just advice to people to tell them what to expect. And governments do that because they have an obligation to their own citizens.

We have reissued our avian influenza travel bulletin and travel advice and we have helped the Indonesians with medications in relation to this and we're in very close contact with Indonesian authorities,

James E. Faust

Boys and girls, have confidence in the direction and counsel and advice of your parents and grandparents who love you more than anybody else in the world does.

George Chapman

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Deb Caletti

I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.

Diana Gabaldon

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

Ed Koch

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

William Shakespeare

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

Charles de Lint

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

Alan Alda

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Byron Katie

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Bryce Courtenay

Never take advice from a donkey.

Cary Grant

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

Chetan Bhagat

Sometimes in your life you just meet someone or hear something that nudges you on the right path. And that becomes the best advice. It could just be a bit of commonsense said in a way that resonates with something in you. It's nothing new, but because it connects with you it holds meaning for you.

Cheryl Strayed

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

Margot Fonteyn

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike

Helen Sharman

The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing.

William Shakespeare

Direct not him whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.

The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

Heber J. Grant

When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'

Betty Friedan

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.