Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haile Gebrselassie

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

Haile Selassie

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Haile Selassie

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Gunter Grass

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Greg Nickels

Will still produce considerable overlook and shadowing on adjoining streets.

Jessica Alba

I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.

Jesse Ventura

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

Jesse Ventura

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

H. G. Wells

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

Jean de la Bruyere

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.

Jay Inslee

Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

Carly Fiorina

What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.

Carly Fiorina

I am a conservative and proud of it.

Bruno Mars

I am so proud and so happy to be Filipino.

James Dyson

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

Joseph Joubert

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Kristin Hannah

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

Moliere

There is no protection against slander.

Moliere

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Milton Friedman

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

Milton Friedman

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.

Mike Dunlap

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

Mike Ditka

Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

Nathan Fillion

I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.

Muhtar Kent

A brand is a promise. A good brand is a promise kept.

Ken Thompson

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

Ken Wilber

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

Ken Wilber

And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

Kathryn Minshew

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

Kate Clinton

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.