Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Jane Austen

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart,

Albert Einstein

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

Anthony Hamilton

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

D. H. Lawrence

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Ambrose Bierce

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Bashar al-Assad

Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Baltasar Gracian

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.

Brenden Morrow

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

Brennan Manning

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

Edgar Allan Poe

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

Ally Carter

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

Aeschylus

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

Alberto Manguel

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Turhan Douglas

We were planning to win. We trained just like we would if we were going to the playoffs.

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Taylor Momsen

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

Sun Tzu

Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

Mark Levin

The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

Ray Richmond

My 17-year-old son is planning to see the 6:00 p.m. screening on Thursday in a suit and tie, ... He said he's planning to go to another screening immediately after...He wants to see the movie twice on the same night.

George Reisman

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.