Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.

Buster Keaton

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

Busta Rhymes

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

Burt Rutan

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

Bryant H. McGill

Self-made men often worship their creator.

Bryant H. McGill

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

Bryant H. McGill

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Bryant H. McGill

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Celia Imrie

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

Cesar Chavez

We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

Cesar Chavez

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

Cesar Chavez

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

Catherine O'Hara

To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!

Catherine Keener

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

Catherine Ponder

Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.

Carroll O'Connor

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

Carroll Shelby

Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad

Carroll Quigley

The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.

Carol Gilligan

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.

Carol Gilligan

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

Carol Gilligan

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation ...

Carol Alt

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on

Carla Bruni

I want a man with nuclear power.

Carl von Clausewitz

As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on the commander's will alone. The ardor of his spirit must rekindle the flame of purpose in all others; his inward fire must revive their hope.

Carl von Clausewitz

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Carl von Clausewitz

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

Carl von Clausewitz

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

Alan Keyes

And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the laws

Alan Keyes

In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.

Alan Lightman

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.

Alan Lightman

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

Alan Garner

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Alan Cumming

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.