Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Alan Perlis

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Alan Moore

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Alan Moore

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

Alan Moore

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Moore

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

Al Neuharth

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Akon

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Bill Ayers

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

Dilma Rousseff

The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.

Alison Moyet

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Donald Sutherland

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

Aneurin Bevan

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

T. E. Lawrence

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

Ralph Nader

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

Serena Williams

I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.

John Owen

God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Bill Nichols

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Bertrand Russell

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

Cheryl Richardson

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

Charles Lamb

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

William Shakespeare

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.