Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Charles Caleb Colton

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Dickens

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

Charles Studd

It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Al Stewart

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Akio Morita

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Colfer

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Audre Lorde

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

Estelle

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

Deepak Chopra

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

Rob Pike

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Stephen Fry

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Tommy Chong

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Starhawk

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Jean Ziegler

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Murray Rothbard

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.