Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Schultz

When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?

Howard Dean

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

Honore de Balzac

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Honore de Balzac

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Honore de Balzac

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Honore de Balzac

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

Ibrahim Rugova

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

Ice T

Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

Ice T

I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

Ice T

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Ice T

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

Ice T

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.

Ice Cube

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

Ice Cube

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

Ice Cube

I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face.

Ice Cube

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

Francis Schaeffer

‎People have presuppositions... By 'presuppositions' we mean the basic way that an individual looks at life- his worldview. The grid through which he sees the world. Presuppositions rest upon that which a person considers to be the truth of what exists. A person's presuppositions provide the basis for their values- and therefore the basis for their decisions.

Francis Schaeffer

Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.

Francis Schaeffer

When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.

Francis Schaeffer

The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.

Francis Schaeffer

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

Francis Quarles

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.

Francis Quarles

Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too; Confesses rather what he means to do.

Ian MacKaye

We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.

Ian MacKaye

Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

Ian MacKaye

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

Ian Mcewan

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.