Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Dick Cheney

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation...

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Aldous Huxley

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

Barack Obama

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Carl Sandburg

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Mark Cuban

Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.

Mark Cuban

Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.

Mark Cuban

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

Mark Cuban

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

Albert Einstein

Science is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Carter Burwell

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living.

Jean Paul

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Henry Miller

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Henry Miller

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Alan Cohen

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

Alan Cohen

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

Isaac Asimov

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Amos Bronson Alcott

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Tim O'Brien

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.

Malala Yousafzai

Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.