Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Sacks

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

Naomi Wolf

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

Narendra Modi

Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!

Narendra Modi

India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

Napoleon Hill

IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

Napoleon Hill

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

Napoleon Hill

Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

Napoleon Hill

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Napoleon Hill

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

Napoleon Hill

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

Napoleon Hill

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Napoleon Hill

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

Napoleon Hill

No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

Norman Tebbit

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

Norman Thomas

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly

Norman Wisdom

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

Norman Rockwell

I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.

Norman Mailer

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Norman O. Brown

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

Orson Welles

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Orlando Bloom

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Orison Swett Marden

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Olga Kurylenko

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

Octavio Paz

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

Octavio Paz

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

Michael Buckley

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

Michael Cera

Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.

Michael Caine

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.