Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murray Rothbard

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

Mike Todd

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

Guillermo del Toro

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

Grace Jones

I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.

H. P. Lovecraft

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

Georg Baselitz

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Gene Kranz

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

Gary Hamel

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Jerry Bridges

Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.

Jerry Bridges

Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.

Jerry Bridges

Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.

Jerry Bridges

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

Jerry Bridges

God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, "I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You" (Psm. 119:11).

Jennifer Armintrout

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Jennie Finch

You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.

Jessica Savitch

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.

Ruth Rendell

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

Ian Macfarlane

Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.

He always comes in with a 'Take over, I can do it' attitude.

He brought a winning attitude to the team. He encouraged us to work hard and do whatever it takes to win.

He brings the same attitude every day. Everything you'd want in a player from a mental standpoint, he has it.

He brings the attitude that we need a leader. The way he plays, the way he talks, you can tell he has a lot of passion for this game.

Ivan Rodriguez

He brings attitude. He's been in baseball a long time and has worked with a lot of players. He's been to the World Series and stuff like that. And that's what we need. We need a manager who's going to come in and establish a positive attitude in the clubhouse, and that's what we have now.

Her attitude toward (Ngai) was of a very caring and patient surrogate mother dealing with a slightly retarded child.

Ian Mcewan

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

Hugh Hefner

I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.

If I can give you one step where you move forward, then you'll take the next one and the next one. It's attitude and tenacity and risk-taking and resilience. If you can home in on those traits with people, you can give them hope and guidance. Can you change their lives? Occasionally. Is an hour short? You bet.

If he can keep that attitude and demeanor about him, he'll always be liked and well known for his personality as well as his golf game.