Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Ayn Rand

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

Jamie Dimon

Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.

Carey Mulligan

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Craig Ferguson

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Bon Scott

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Brooke Burke

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Frank Aquila

Essentially, they (Guidant) are going to say ... yes there have been issues at Guidant, but do those issues give rise to a right on the part of Johnson & Johnson to walk away from the transaction?

Alex Karpovsky

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.