Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Cuban

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Oscar Wilde

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Peter Greenaway

I like a lot of glasses about -- it highers the tone.

Andrea Gibson

You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.

Andrea Gibson

You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty

Andrea Gibson

Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.

Andrea Gibson

My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.

Andrea Gibson

I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

Andrea Gibson

You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.'

Andrea Gibson

Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

Andrea Gibson

I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.

Andrea Dworkin

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Heraclitus

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Henry Ward Beecher

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

David Hume

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

Rig Veda

Without knowledge a man is no better than an animal.

Michael Widomski

When you know that there is going to be a disaster, you can position knowledge and people.

Alison Smith

We saw it as a unique opportunity to use our knowledge to make this run smoothly.

Lamar Odom

We get to have a light practice, lift a little weights, have a steak and relax a little bit.

Adam Beach

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Tony Abbott

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

Simone Weil

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Thucydides

A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.

Robert A. Heinlein

High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no way to kill anyone with High Frontier - all that High Frontier can do is to keep others from killing us.

Robert A. Heinlein

Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.

Oswald Chambers

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Max Azria

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

George Canning

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Tallulah Bankhead

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Tom Petty

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

Simone de Beauvoir

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

Rene Auberjonois

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

Roger Miller

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

Thomas Menino

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Thomas Carlyle

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.