Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Lessing

But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

Doris Lessing

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

Doris Lessing

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

Donna Summer

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

Donnie Wahlberg

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

Donald Justice

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Donald Hall

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

Donald Glover

People are sometimes like: "Oh man, you're so talented and you do a bunch of stuff." I'm not! I swear to god, I'm not. I just like learning stuff, I like doing stuff. And I feel like everybody can definitely do it.

Don Rickles

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

Dakota Johnson

I think there’s a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

Dale Carnegie

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.

Dale Carnegie

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

Dale Carnegie

Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

Dale Carnegie

I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.

Dale Carnegie

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

Dale Carnegie

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

Dale Carnegie

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

Dale Carnegie

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Dale Carnegie

Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.

Dale Carnegie

Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?

Dale Carnegie

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

Dale Carnegie

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

Dale Carnegie

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

Craig Washington

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

Colin Powell

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Colin Powell

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

Colin Powell

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Claud Cockburn

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

Clark Moustakas

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Claude Chabrol

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Claude C. Hopkins

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.