Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Cameron

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

Murray Rothbard

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

Mike Dooley

Relax. Breathe in deep. Hold it. Let it out. Loosen your shoulders. Smile. Close your eyes. You'll be surprised at how many voices you'll hear, whispering sweet encouragement into your ear.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

George Herbert

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Gary Gygax

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

Francis Quarles

They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

If I can just encourage them to try, we learn more from our mistakes sometimes.

If he's not stretched out, that's going to be an issue. But we can't request a guy not go. I encourage him to go. Let's take the high road here. This might be a good thing for the young man. He's going to be around very competitive baseball, and hopefully he'll get very meaningful innings.

Ravi Teja

I can't work with people who aren't fun loving. I don't encourage such people.

Winston Churchill

I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit to me.

Gary Williams

I am proud of our guys, because we were in it until the end. N.C. State is a good team, with lots of veterans, and we stayed tough and I am very encouraged about that.

Julia Glass

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

He's one of the guys we're really encouraged about because he's got a lot of experience.

Erich Fromm

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

Hillary Clinton

At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.

Hillary Clinton

I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.

Jack Kerouac

One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

By rushing out a one-sided rule that encourages only land line to wireless transfers, that promise was broken." ()

Elizabeth Banks

Honestly, I am hoping to influence young people, and Twitter's a great way to encourage them to lend their voice to the conversation. Any time you can show young people that you support gay friends and that there are gay people in the world who are lovely, happy, singing, and in love, it opens their minds.

Because it knows where you are, it can encourage you to see things and meet people you wouldn't normally see or meet.

highly unethical event that will only increase commercialization and encourage the theft of fossils from museums.

But I am encouraged to see that she's looking forward to the future and that she's willing to give it her all. She's right, it's not just about the money, it's about managing people.

Han Xiaopeng

Before we did not know how to co-operate with a foreign coach. But Wilson works very hard and very seriously. He always encourages us and explains why we must work hard. He is also a very kind man.

Gwen Moore

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

Jay Wright

I'm very excited about the fact that his progress has been so encouraging. But I still would, however, encourage him to come back and have a full senior season.

I'm used to being on the road and being an opponent. I'm looking forward to having the support of people who have encouraged and supported me the last five years who haven't even seen me box.

I'm not where I want to be, but I'm better. It felt pretty good. We got some guys out today. Hopefully we can do the same for the next month and a half. I'm sure (the Red Sox) are as encouraged today as I was.

I'm hopeful that what has occurred over the last several weeks will give us all pause and encourage us all to seek a better solution.

If people don't like to see road kill, we'd encourage them to slow down. The solution is not necessarily hiding the carcasses, it's finding different solutions.

I like to encourage my kids to have physical activity. They really love it.

I just thought it would be a way to encourage the life skills in a real-life situation.