Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashley Judd

Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.

Ashley Greene

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

Berthold Auerbach

Years teach us more than books.

Bruce Springsteen

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Bruno Bettelheim

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Bruce Willis

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

Bruce Willis

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

Bruce Barton

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Bruce Barton

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

Bruce Barton

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Brit Marling

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.

Britney Spears

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

Brett Favre

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

Brett Favre

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Aretha Franklin

I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin' takes courage.

Archibald MacLeish

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Antisthenes

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Ben Okri

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

Barbara Johnson

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

Barbara Jordan

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Barbara Jordan

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Barbara Jordan

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Ruth

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Babe Ruth

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.