Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Jane Austen

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Jane Austen

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Jane Austen

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jason Calacanis

Be amazing. Be everywhere. Be real

Janet Jackson

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

Jane Wagner

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

Jane Seymour

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

Miley Cyrus

The struggles I'm facing The chances I'm taking Sometimes might knock me down But no, I'm not breaking.

Miley Cyrus

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

Ben Elton

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Cesar Millan

I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.

Cesar Chavez

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.

Cesar Chavez

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

Carter Burwell

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.

Alain de Botton

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

Charles R. Swindoll

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

Barry Goldwater

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Bruce Lee

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Bruce Lee

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

Bruce Lee

I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.

Bruce Lee

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Bruce Lee

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

Bruce Lee

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Bruce Lee

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Brooke Shields

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.