Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Roebuck

It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Richard Baxter

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

Ryan Hall

The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

Russell Hoban

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

Russell Brand

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Charles Richards

The march is a way to get in celebration mode.

Anthony Fauci

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

Rob Zombie

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

William James

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

William James

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

William Gibson

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,

William Gibson

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

Norman Mailer

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Joel Osteen

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

Gene Wilder

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Henry Ford

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Charles R. Swindoll

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

Ben Hecht

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

Allen Tate

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain....