Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Thomas Sowell

Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

Thomas Sowell

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

Thomas Sowell

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Richard Lugar

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

T. E. Lawrence

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

Ray Kurzweil

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

Swami Vivekananda

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

Simone de Beauvoir

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Cory Doctorow

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Alexander Pope

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

Anne Rice

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

Rush Limbaugh

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Victor Hugo

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Swami Vivekananda

In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings.

Serena Williams

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Marcus Terentius Varro

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Robert Green Ingersoll

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

Tyrus Thomas

Let them think what they want. Like my big man said, we are still hungry, we still have a lot more to prove.

Pius Ncube

Let the man get banished if you don't want Zimbabweans to die,

William Shakespeare

Let every man be master of his timeTill seven at night.

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

John Bunting

You get off to a poor start in the third quarter and things start rolling the other way. It starts snowballing a little bit.

Alexander Pope

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

Marilynne Robinson

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Isabelle Eberhardt

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

Chipper Jones

If he was trying to take me out, he did a poor job.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vince Sollitto

They are rich, powerful tribes that don't want poor tribes to have compacts.

Emily Dickinson

Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Master P

I want to get rich and die old.

Patsy Cline

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

Patsy Cline

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

Larry Davis

Rich did very well. He got tired at the end, but that's to be expected.

George Herbert

Good workemen are seldome rich.

George Herbert

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

Christian Slater

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?