Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Change means the unknown.

Eileen Claussen

How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.

Eileen Caddy

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.

Eduardo Galeano

A pretty move, for the love of God.

Edward Abbey

Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

Eddie Redmayne

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

Atom Egoyan

The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

Aristotle

Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

Aristotle

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

Aristotle

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

Aristotle

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

Aristotle

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

Aristotle

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

Aristotle

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

Ben Hogan

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

Ben Hecht

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

Ben Horowitz

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.

Ben Horowitz

The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation.

Ben Harper

We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.

We're just going to keep moving forward. We're not going to do anything differently.

Alexis Stewart

I like when she [Martha Stewart] demonstrates how to transport a potted plant while wearing Hermes pants and uses enough packing material to move a whole house. But we're just moving one plant. Really you just put the plant in a truck and go.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

Alexis de Tocqueville

All around you everything is on the move,

Alexis de Tocqueville

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Walter Benjamin

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

Walter Benjamin

I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.