Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patanjali

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

Pat Summitt

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

P. D. James

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

P. D. James

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

P. J. O'Rourke

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

P. J. O'Rourke

Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

Mark Twain

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Mark Twain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

Mark Twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Mary Ritter Beard

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

Mary Calderone

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Mary Browne

You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.

Mary Browne

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

Martin Heidegger

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Marsha Norman

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marshall Field

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Mark McCormack

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Mark McCormack

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Mark Epstein

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Marion Blakey

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

Mario Puzo

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Marilyn Monroe

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

Marilyn Monroe

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

Marilyn Monroe

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Marilyn Monroe

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Marilyn Monroe

Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Marilyn Monroe

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Noam Chomsky

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!