Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Travolta

The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

James Joyce

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

James Russell Lowell

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

James Russell Lowell

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

James Russell Lowell

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

James Russell Lowell

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

James Russell Lowell

To genius life never grows commonplace.

Laurence Sterne

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

Libba Bray

He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

Leslie Stephen

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

George Gilder

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

Jon Foreman

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Luc de Clapiers

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

Luc de Clapiers

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

Nicolas Chamfort

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Nora Roberts

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Nat King Cole

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Myrna Loy

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.

Millard Fuller

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.