Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Mike Hammond

I think it's a great opportunity for people to come out and have fun. They're not running a marathon. It's great for people who want to come out and test themselves.

Steve Sanchez

I think it's a great idea for the city.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Robert Ringer

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Saint Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

W. Clement Stone

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.

Yvette Clarke

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

William C. Bryant

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

Wilhelm Reich

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness.

Walter Savage Landor

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Anton LaVey

Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.

Anton LaVey

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Romain Rolland

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

John Milton

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.