Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Carrie Fisher

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Carrie Underwood

I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going.

Carl Rogers

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Carl Rogers

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

Carl Rogers

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Carl Rogers

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

Carl Rogers

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Sagan

The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

Bill Bryson

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

Bethany Hamilton

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

Bethany Hamilton

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

Bethany Hamilton

It's hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the attack. I was incredibly thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me you'll never surf again was gone in one wave.

Bethany Hamilton

Your looks do not define who you are.

Bethany Hamilton

You fall off the horse and you get back on.

Bethany Hamilton

The paramedic whispered in my ear 'God will never leave you or forsake you.'

Bethany Hamilton

I don't want easy, just possible.

Bethany Hamilton

My only real fear was that I would not be able to surf again because I was concerned that I would not physically be able to do it. I knew that if I wasn't able to surf then my life would really change.

Bethany Hamilton

It's been amazing to touch people's lives.

Bethany Hamilton

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

Bethany Hamilton

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

Bethany Hamilton

Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.

Bethany Hamilton

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

Bethany Hamilton

In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.

Bette Davis

Old age ain't for sissies

Bette Davis

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

Bette Davis

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

Bette Davis

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Bette Davis

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...

Bernard Arnault

China has really succeeded because of its stability. So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation. I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth. If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.