Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Oliver

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

Janis Joplin

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

Jared Diamond

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

Janine Shepherd

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

Janine Shepherd

It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.

Miley Cyrus

When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me'

Ken Salazar

Frankly, we don't understand what the true motivation was,

I don't think racial motivation has anything to do with it.

Ben Feldman

Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

Ben Goldacre

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

Ben Goldacre

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

Cameron Russell

[Models] have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

C. S. Lewis

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

C. S. Lewis

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Bryant H. McGill

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

Bryant H. McGill

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Cesar Chavez

...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.

Catherine Ponder

What you praise you increase.

Carroll Quigley

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

Alan Dean Foster

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

Alain de Botton

Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

Alain de Botton

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

Aimee Mann

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

Charles R. Swindoll

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Charles Kettering

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Charles Kettering

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

Charles Kettering

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles Kingsley

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Darwin

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Barkley

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.