Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

Ann Landers

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Helen Keller

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Marianne Moore

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

John Updike

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Thomas Aquinas

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Stanley Kubrick

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Pablo Neruda

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive

Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Eminem

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Dorothea Lange

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Neil Armstrong

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Thomas A. Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Phyllis Schlafly

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Curtis Mayfield

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

Kyan Douglas

Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Ruben Hinojosa

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Anupam Kher

Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well... it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.

William Bennett

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

Steve Allen

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Eric Bentley

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Valerie Solanas

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

George Grove

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

Eben Alexander

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

Rupert Sanders

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Ilya Yashin

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Alvin Toffler

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Ben Okri

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Henry Eyring

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

Linda Thompson

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

Richard Platt

Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.

Brooks Stevens

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Sacha Guitry

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Thomas Perez

Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.

Walter Smith

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Wolcott Gibbs

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Henry Timrod

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

David McFadden

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

Diego Boneta

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

Will Carleton

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

Nick Price

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Theodore Roethke

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Ed Greenwood

Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.

William Shatner

Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.

Gertrude B. Elion

Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation.