Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Alison Lohman

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about

Alison Gopnik

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Alison Gopnik

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

Anthony Jeselnik

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

Anthony Jeselnik

I'm very arrogant and mean. I'm almost like a bad guy professional wrestler.

Ann Landers

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

Ann Brashares

I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Howard Rheingold

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Hyman Rickover

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

Gloria Naylor

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

James Gleick

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!

J. R. R. Tolkien

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Debby Ryan

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Jose Bergamin

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Julian Casablancas

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

Katherine Heigl

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

James Macdonald

If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.

James M. Barrie

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

James M. Barrie

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.