Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith McNaught

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

Judith McNaught

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

Judith Martin

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

Judith Martin

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

Judith Martin

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Judith Martin

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Josh Hopkins

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

Katherine Dunham

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Joyce Meyer

Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Whitehorn

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Katharine Hepburn

It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.

Katharine Hepburn

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Katharine Hepburn

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Katharine Hepburn

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Katharine Hepburn

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Katharine Hepburn

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Karen Kingsbury

Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own.

Judith Viorst

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Judy Blume

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

Judy Blume

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

Judy Blume

Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

Joseph Conrad

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Kate Reardon

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

Kate Spade

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

Kate Spade

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

Leonard Cohen

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.