Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Russell Baker

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

Roz Savage

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

Romeo LeBlanc

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

Roger Martin

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

Umberto Eco

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

Trey Songz

I think clothes are very much a representation of your attitude and the way you feel. I really love to be dressed down, though.

Raymond Chandler

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

Rhonda Byrne

You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.

Rhonda Byrne

You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you.

Rick Warren

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

Rick Warren

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

Rick Warren

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

Rick Warren

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

Rick Warren

Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

Rick Warren

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

Rick Warren

In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.

Paola Antonelli

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

Paola Antonelli

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

Paramahansa Yogananda

With right attitude, life is very simple and very easy.

Ovid

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

Oscar Pistorius

The only disability in life is having a bad attitude

Paul McCartney

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

Peter Greenaway

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

Paul Valery

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Paul Valery

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

Paul Valery

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

Paul Volcker

It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our old age and moan about it, but I think the administrative processes and the management effectiveness of the federal government are terrible!

Paul Wellstone

We can remake the world daily.