Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Freud

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Held

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Anna Deavere Smith

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

Andrew Shue

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Andrew Shue

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

Andrew Shue

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Andrew Solomon

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

Andre Malraux

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Maurois

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Andre Maurois

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Ambrose Bierce

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

Ambrose Bierce

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambrose Bierce

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Ambrose Bierce

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ambrose Bierce

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Alicia Keys

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

Alice Walker

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Abraham Lincoln

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Abraham Lincoln

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Anna Wintour

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

Ani Difranco

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

Ani Difranco

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Ani Difranco

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Andy Griffith

I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.

Andy Grove

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Andrew Murray

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

Amy Lowell

Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?