Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Gore

The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

Charles R. Swindoll

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

Charles Kettering

The price of progress is trouble.

Charles Kingsley

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Charles Clarke

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous

Charles Darwin

Progress has been much more general than retrogression

Charles Darwin

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

Brenda Fassie

I am proud to be an African.

Bono

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

Barbara Coloroso

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

Artur Davis

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Bruce Jenner

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

Edward Young

There buds the promise of celestial worth.

Edward Young

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

Edward Young

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Edward Young

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

Edmund Burke

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

Elie Wiesel

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

We live in a world of skeptics, don't we? ... We didn't come into this to prove ourselves.

Tom Daschle

We have a real problem with regard to Social Security and Medicare,

Rene Preval

We have a problem with the process, and we want to resolve it.

E. V. Lucas

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Dwyane Wade

The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.

Coventry Patmore

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

Courtney Love

I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.

We're just as proud of it as Shaun is.

We should talk while we are still alive. - Kalenjin (Kenya)

Andrae Crouch

I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness