Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Henley

In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions..

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Colin Wilson

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

Dalai Lama

Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

Dalai Lama

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

Dalai Lama

Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.

Dalai Lama

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Dalai Lama

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

Dalai Lama

An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Brian Smith

From our perspective it would be a positive.

Pico Iyer

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we call results are beginnings.

Shinzo Abe

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Pema Chodron

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

Judy Woodruff

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

Joan Lunden

It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.

Garry Trudeau

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven days is too long between massages

Ani Difranco

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Andrew Motion

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Amy Poehler

Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.

Ally Carter

No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.

Allen Tate

Death's long anabasis.

Alison Gopnik

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Ann Brashares

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.