Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Bohn

Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.

Thomas Fuller

Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Boris Pasternak

You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together.

Stephen Kinzer

Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer.

Bible Bible

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

Douglas Alexander

I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public.

Bible Bible

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

David Vitter

I welcome the boldness of his vision. ... Clearly the tough work remains to be done, and everybody, including Congress, needs to roll up their sleeves and get that work done.

Chinua Achebe

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

Ellen Anderson

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

Cheryl Mendelson

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

William Shakespeare

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

Carl Jung

The gods have become our diseases.

David Wilson

We're starting to see young people with old people diseases. These diseases include hardening of the arteries, heart attacks, and diabetes.

Benjamin Franklin

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

Avicenna

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Biz Stone

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

Deborah King

A smile is powerful, ... It says, 'I'm happy, I'm confident.' It draws people to you.

Bong Joon-ho

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

Larry Young

When the market is moving, it's like a magnet that draws money and traders to it.

Bhagavad Gita

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Craig Lucas

We felt that Robert had to have qualities that Jeffrey and Elaine hadn't encountered before. Not just his good looks, but his talent and his intensity. And because Robert is grieving, he's extremely vulnerable, and that draws Jeffrey and Elaine in as well.

Jon Krakauer

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

Dave Bosso

I smiled from ear to ear when I saw him the first day of school this year. He'd grown about four inches. He's really improved tremendously. He's got a great work ethic. He's just a monster inside. He draws a lot of fouls. He draws a lot of attention. He's a pleasant surprise this year.

Matthew Ashford

I draw whatever hits me.

Anthony Shadid

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.

Charles Dickens

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Charles Spurgeon

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

Charles Spurgeon

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

Alan Rickman

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

Alan Greenspan

Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity. Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.

Alan Greenspan

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

Alan Arkin

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

Al Stewart

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Al Pacino

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

Lindsay Lohan

I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

Susan Smith

We've tried to make it a place where someone can run in and get a gift for any occasion. We've been very pleased.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Joseph Addison

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

Rabbi Nachman

Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.

Jeff Judkins

Ambrosia is as gifted offensively and defensively as any of those players in this game.

Renee Fitzgerald

This has been a really big job but very fulfilling. I may not have all my gifts wrapped for my kids or my house clean, but I have memories that will last forever.

Eddie O'Sullivan

They scored one good try but we gifted them the rest and paid the price.

Eric Johansson

They say, 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth,' but when it's a Trojan horse, you do.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Carl Jung

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Edgar Mitchell

I've been very involved in this quantum holographic formalism and helping to explore it as explanatory of the very root of our perceptual capabilities. It is postulated, for example, that this very basic entanglement, at the quantum level, at the level of subatomic matter, is really a part of quantum mechanics.

Benjamin Franklin

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

Ben Affleck

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Tony Skinn

Well, being from our conference, I know they're rooting for us, anyway.

Charles Blake

It strengthens me to be rooted in the word of God.

Dick Reed

They are part of the root of what we are as a country, as a nation,

Jamie Silverstein

It was fun. I think for us this is really about the experience, and we're here to root on the other Americans.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.