Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Zakarian

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

Georg Brandes

What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Gary L. Francione

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or any real conflict between human and nonhuman interests. If animals matter morally at all, then, even without accepting a theory of animal rights, those uses of animals cannot be morally justified.

Gary Kemp

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

Gary Gygax

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

Gary Johnson

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

Gary Hamel

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

Jessica Valenti

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Jessica Simpson

We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.

Jerry Cantrell

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

Jerry B. Jenkins

When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

Jerry B. Jenkins

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

Jerry Bruckheimer

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

Jerry Brown

The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.

Jerry Brown

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

Jerry Bridges

Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.

Jenna Ushkowitz

I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.

Jennifer Aniston

It's a real gift when you find someone to share your life with.

Jennifer Aniston

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Jennifer Aniston

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

Jeanne Shaheen

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

Jean-Francois Cope

I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.