Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damon Lindelof

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Donatella Versace

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Anne Stevenson

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Anne Stevenson

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

Clarence Darrow

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

Confucius

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

Alison Bechdel

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

Ayn Rand

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

Brian Tracy

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

Jane Austen

Arguments are too much like disputes.

Anton Chekhov

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

Blaise Pascal

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves…

Barry Levinson

There's no downside to having too much experience.

Courteney Cox

I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.

Duncan Sheik

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Mike Wilton

The team did well at times, and didn't play well at times. It was one of those kinds of matches.

Jim Calhoun

Sometimes I'd like to see them with more swagger. Perhaps we'll walk out of here with that kind of swagger.

Elliott Smith

I've been here all three nights. I kind of like it down here by the river.

Sara Schopper

That's kind of how we've been all year at the line. We've been in and out all year.

Jane Goodall

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Cesar Chavez

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.

Carol Burnett

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.