Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William Howard Taft

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Warren Buffett

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

Virginia Woolf

I am rooted, but I flow.

Robertson Davies

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Morrie Schwartz

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Samuel Johnson

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Samuel Johnson

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

Warren Buffett

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory