Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jim Lynch

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Matthew Lewis

As a character he is really great because he has got the funny sides and the comedy, but he also is kind of useless sometimes.

Camilla Luddington

As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.

Satya Bhabha

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Joe McFarland

The Big Ten is the premier conference, it's the toughest conference, and to do it week in and week out really says a lot about the character of these guys.

Sathya Baba

A virtuous character is the lamp which illumines the path to peace and joy.

Stanley Arkin

Often times, criminal complaints are a signal of some kind of deal in the offing.

Peter Erben

Dependent on the number of complaints we do hope that we can have a final certified result for all 34 provinces by the 22nd of October.

Lee Corso

Tell them to get over it. That's the rules everybody plays by. They shouldn't be complaining about that. Bowden didn't make them up. Paterno didn't make them up. But somebody made them up.

Melissa Teasdale

(Practice is) going to be awesome. I have no complaints about anything right now.

Lawrence Samuels

That's why I don't complain about football injuries. If Landry can go through what she went through, there's nothing on that field that I can't do.

Pat Coyle

You sign a contract and you make a decision to go over there and play, you know what you're getting yourself into. I don't wanna hear people complain about it.

Tom Inman

We're playing in the semifinals and you can't complain about that.

Eliot Spitzer

we have received a complaint and we're reviewing it.

Byron Dorgan

Complaints that the selection process was inadequate are significant and come from people in a position to know the facts, ... I think such an investigation is not only appropriate but very much needed.

Mike Griffin

Any time I can have more flexibility and control of my money, I think that is a good thing - as long as it is optional.

Mark Rea

Another typical outstanding game for her. Team-wise, we played defense pretty well. We really took control of our own errors. We kept control of the ball.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Janet Jacobs

As a mother, you are never ready for something like this. It is hard to let that control go and you just have to be supportive. Everyone is proud of him and we all miss him here at home,

Robert Corn

The big thing is that we control our destiny. If we win, we're in.

John Rafferty

The big thing is it's dangerous. There are not enough officials for three at each game and maybe not even two. You need three referee's to control a physical game between rivals. And if the fields are slippery that could be even more dangerous.

Paul Farris

back in the city's control - not the library board.

Dick Hunsaker

As long as we're an independent we'll have this scenario where we can't control our schedule and where we play. Playing seven (road games) in nine isn't what you want to do.

David Robinson

A small system today without national control service would really be economically disadvantaged.

Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.

Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it

Diane Sollee

Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.

Bob Dylan

A self-ordained professors tongue, too serious to fool ...

Publilius Syrus

A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave.

Lord Mansfield

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

Toba Beta

A fool tries to shut others' mouth instead of listens to his own heart.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A fool may give a wise man counsel.

Danish Proverb

A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent

Billy Donovan

Self-inflicted wounds, you know. It was all just self-inflicted.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Ayn Rand

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

Stan Kasten

He often takes conventional wisdom ... and contradicts it.

Rick Clausen

The most important thing is understanding your role,

Rita Ora

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.