Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

Elbert Hubbard

Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.

Eleanor Roosevelt

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

Eleanor Roosevelt

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must preserve our right to think and differ.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do what we think we can't do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

Eileen Atkins

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

Eileen collins

I don’t think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove,

Egon Schiele

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

Ehud Olmert

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

Ehud Olmert

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

Ehud Olmert

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

Edvard Munch

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Edsger Dijkstra

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Edsger Dijkstra

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

Edsger Dijkstra

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

Edsger Dijkstra

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

Eduardo Galeano

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

Edward Abbey

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Edward Abbey

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Edward Abbey

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Edward Abbey

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

Eddie Obeng

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

Eddie Sutton

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.