Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ebenezer Ekuban

I'd be lying to you if I said that it's just another game. It really isn't.

Andy Pettitte

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a blow.

Richard Page

As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

Richard P. Feynman

The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction — a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory — who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.

Richard Hofstadter

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

Richard Hofstadter

To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.

Rebecca West

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

Richard Bach

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

Richard Bach

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

William Saroyan

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

Sarah MacLean

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne

Vivek Wadhwa

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

Warren Buffett

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that

William Hazlitt

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

W. Somerset Maugham

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

William P. Young

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

Patton Oswalt

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

Evo Morales

We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Mahatma Gandhi

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Newt Gingrich

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

John Armstrong

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

Paul Neilan

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

Karen Thompson Walker

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

Mark Messier

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

L. Frank Baum

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

John H. Johnson

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.