Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Walter Gilbert

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

Vladimir Putin

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

Vladimir Putin

Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.

Vladimir Putin

I do not want to answer provocative question.

Winifred Holtby

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

Winston Churchill

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

William Rotsler

You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem

William S. Burroughs

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

William Kristol

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

William Jennings Bryan

God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.

Woodrow Wilson

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Woodrow Wilson

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Xaviera Hollander

When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!

Xaviera Hollander

You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

Winston Churchill

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

Will Self

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

Will Self

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Will Rogers

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

Zong Qinghou

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

Zachary Quinto

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Zach Braff

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

Ze Frank

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

Yoweri Museveni

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

Zig Ziglar

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Zhuangzi

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

William H. Seward

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

William Hague

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

Wendell Phillips

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Walter Mosley

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.

Will Smith

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.