Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Calhoun

There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.

John C. Calhoun

I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!

Pedro Marquez

That was her first time running the 100 hurdles and she did OK. I think she's conquered her fear of the hurdles and I think those times will come down.

William M. Thackeray

Who misses, or who wins the prize?Go, lose and conquer as you can:But if you fail, or if you rise,Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

William M. Thackeray

Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose and conquer as you can: But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

The Talmud

Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges

Granth Sahib

While you are alive, conquer death, and you shall have no regrets in the end.

Marvin Gaye

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Travis Hedrick

If in life you feel like a stone tossed about in stormy sea, remember that the rough and jagged edges of a stone are smoothed away by the rough waters. It was a small smooth stone that defeated a giant. When your edges are gone what will you be able to conquer with your life?

John C. Calhoun

I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!

Clark Gregg

I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.

Bob Semling

I thought at the start of the second half we made a statement. I loved our toughness, heart and passion we gave out on the court. In big games like this it's all about surviving, conquering and moving on.

Jean Stafford

She did observe, with some dismay, that far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems.

Tom McMillan

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Nick Griffin

It's part of their plan for conquering countries. It's how they do it.

Mike Berry

Dennis has taken one of the smallest nations in the world to the greatest show on the planet. He walked down the streets of his home town like a conquering hero, and yet he is exactly the same person today as he was six years ago.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.

Marlon Wayans

People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there's no greater feeling.

Terry Kerr

We've done a number of other searches, not specifically related to this, but because of a greater student awareness.

Ken Kendrick

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

Hermann Oberth

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Robert Frank

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Pierre Schaeffer

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Carl Gustav Jung

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

Frank Darabont

I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Carl Rogers

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Carl Sagan

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

Robert Johnson

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Kimberly Elise

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't be afraid of your own strength.

David D. Burns

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

David D. Burns

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.

David D. Burns

If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated with significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more happiness, optimism, and positive emotions.

David Suchet

I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from my television public. There's still a part of me that wishes that my character range could be seen on the big screen. Rather, as Rod Steiger was, because he was a big influence on me - about becoming other people and not worrying about your own glory or self esteem but sacrificing yourself to become somebody else.

B. F. Skinner

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

Atharva Veda

He, who works incessantly, accomplishes any task that he undertakes!

Dmitry Medvedev

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Edward Hirsch

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.