Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gidwitz

Our long journey ends here this evening. Would I do it again? My answer is a resounding yes. Running for governor is one of the most rewarding and exciting things I've ever done.

Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.

I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.

Lorraine Ryan

You will get a quicker answer if you call your plan directly to check your enrollment and to resolve issues with your premium payments. Medicare and Social Security are working together to resolve this issue.

Claude Nobs

And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and called it 'jazz.' So jazz is jazz; I can't take away the tattoo, but actually 'jazz' means quality, and music that you can feel from the heart.

Saeb Erakat

And maybe and only maybe, the answer to this mess, to these killings fields out there, is not more incursions, not more tanks,

Charlize Theron

All we discussed (with Caro) was what is the truth of this woman and the life that she's led. All of a sudden, when you get the answer to the emotional side, the physical elements just come quite organically.

E. O. Wilson

All we did is open a can of worms and show people: 'Hey, bring it to Oklahoma. We've got to come out there and answer our bell and take the fight to these guys this week and from there hopefully have some success and maybe get this thing turned around and get back to playing in a strong way and having a chance to have a great year.

Scott Reifert

All you have to do is answer who is the fourth president of the United States. He just laughed.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Louis Agassiz

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

John F. Kennedy

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were. [...] The truth doesn't die.

John Donne

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.