Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Dobson

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.

Jared Sparks

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

Jared Leto

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

Janet Erskine Stuart

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

Jane McGonigal

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

Euripides

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

Ernest Gaines

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Ernest Gaines

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Erin Andrews

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

Carly Patterson

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

Evander Holyfield

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

Harry Stack Sullivan

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Hanna Rosin

The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.

Hanna Rosin

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

Frank Zappa

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Fred Rogers

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Frank Herbert

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

George Henry Lewes

The only cure for grief is action.

Hakeem Olajuwon

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

Greg Smith

Taking action births motivation.

Greg Mortenson

The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.

Jim Butcher

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

Jim Butcher

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

Jim Butcher

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Jim Butcher

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Jay-Z

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

Jay-Z

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

Jay-Z

I believe you can speak things into existence.

Murray Gell-Mann

Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

Kathleen Norris

Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

Kathleen Norris

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

Kaki King

We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.