Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Frazier

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

Charles Erwin Wilson

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Bob Richards

There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar.

Bob Saget

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

Billy Wilder

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Bill Monroe

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.

Bill Maher

There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

Bill Maher

New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

Bill Maher

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

Bill Maher

Cleavage is to a man what power is to a woman.

Bill Maher

I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on the Flintstones!

Bill Maher

I doubt anything will really come of this lawsuit. First of all, it's a lawsuit. It involves a subpoena. And try to find a Republican who will be willing to be seen serving a black man.

Bill Maher

Talk to women who've ever dated an Arab man. The results are not good,

Bill Maher

New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men.

Bill Maher

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

Bill Bixby

First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.

Beth Brooke

What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.

Bessie Smith

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

Beth Moore

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

Beth Moore

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

Beth Moore

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

Bernard Levin

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Bernard Levin

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Bernard Malamud

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Bernard Malamud

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Bernard Malamud

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Bernard Malamud

Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.

Bernard Malamud

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Bernard Malamud

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

Bernard of Clairvaux

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

Benjamin Hooks

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Benjamin Hoff

There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and shadow would not be able to follow him and then he never ever had to look at them again. He ran and he ran as fast as he could, but the shadow and the footprints had no problems keeping up to him. And he ran even faster and all of a sudden he fell dead to the ground. But if he been standing still there hadn't been any footprints and if he had been resting under a tree his shadow had been swallowed of the trees shadow.