Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Williams

We will mention Troy, particularly at the end of the game,

When Randy was rescued, we weren't sure of our miracle. These men are responsible." ()

William Shakespeare

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Shawn Amos

Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

Orson Scott Card

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

Orson Scott Card

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

Paul Simon

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Paul Simon

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

Robert Herrick

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

Robert A. Heinlein

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

Robert Anderson

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Orson Scott Card

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

Orson Scott Card

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

Orson Scott Card

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

Orson Scott Card

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Orson Scott Card

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

Orson Scott Card

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

Norman Mailer

You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.

Rebecca West

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Pierre de Coubertin

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

Ram Dass

You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has. You've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting. Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don't.

We were not mentally prepared for this one. (The coaches) saw it prior to the game. Things were not business.

William Penn

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.

Chuck D.

You can mention the name, and people recognize it.

We had a shot mentality in the first game. In the second game, we moved the puck around too much and we weren't moving it too well.

We've had the same season-long problems. We make mental mistakes, whether it results in a penalty or a turnover, and we don't shoot the puck enough. ... You can't score unless you shoot.

Pete Johnson

We've got 10 men working on the Discovery, but we could use six more.

John le Carre

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

Ellen Johnson

Women, don't sit there! Do something positive together with men!

Sharon Kay Penman

Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.

Stephen Jay Gould

Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases.