Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wesley

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

John S. Watson

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

John Stott

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

John Stott

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Martin Luther

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Nick Cave

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

Nancy Allen

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

Seth Godin

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Seth Godin

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Seth Godin

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Seth Godin

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

Ray Charles

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

Tom Allen

The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

Todd Rokita

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

Simon Wiesenthal

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Melanie Fiona

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

Thelonious Monk

Everyone is a genius at being themselves

Thelonious Monk

A genius is the one most like himself.

Margaret Mead

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Margaret Fuller

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Marcus Brigstocke

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

Marcus Buckingham

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Michael Douglas

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Michael Douglas

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry,

Ravi Zacharias

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

The House recognized the serious difficulties of this whole approach. It would've shortchanged municipalities and shortchanged the state general fund, which are recipes for tax increases.

You can sense the genocide from 10 years ago, but there is still a sense of optimism and energy.

Felipe Alou

You don't have too many guys who are regulars you can use, without fear, in three outfield positions in three days. That's generally a part-time guy.

Henry Adams

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Henry Garza

Music has been in our family for generations.

Henry George

It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.

Henry David Thoreau

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Plato

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.