Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Gardner

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

Howard Baker

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

Hosea Ballou

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Horace

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Horace

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Hank Aaron

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

Hank Aaron

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Hannah Arendt

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Hannah Arendt

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Guy Clark

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Guy Finley

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Guy Finley

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

Guy Finley

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

Guy Finley

You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

Guy Finley

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, too, has to be learned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

George Benson

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

George Burns

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

George Burns

I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success.

George Burns

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

George Burns

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

George Burns

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

George Burns

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Bernard Shaw

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

George Bernard Shaw

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

George Bernard Shaw

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

George Bernard Shaw

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

George Bernard Shaw

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.