Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

Bear Grylls

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

Bear Grylls

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Brandon Lewis

We are always pleased to see our customers finding success with our software. Entrepreneurs, by nature, are very brave people. Taking a business online has unique challenges, but our products and services continue to help thousands of small businesses successfully establish an online presence.

Lesli Linka Glatter

Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening - these are all brave women. They've all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier.

L. Neil Smith

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Katy Perry

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Bertrand Russel

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Benjamin Franklin

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.

Bob Costas

You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly.

George Herbert

Folly growes without watering.

Jean de La Fontaine

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Rob Cosby

They don't quit. They don't want to quit playing and neither do I.

Pat Gelsinger

It really is something that neither one of us could have done on their own.

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Chris Smith

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Kevin Cathcart

Tragedy does not discriminate, and neither should relief agencies.

Charles Ferguson Smith

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Charles Manson

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

Robin Cook

There is no question at any stage of Tony offering me his resignation nor at any stage of my thinking that he should be resigning,

Carl Jung

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

J. Taylor

would be normal for these indictments to dropped.

Patricia Hewitt

There is no question of the NHS being privatised.

Jim MacDonald

There is no question it has to happen.

Joel Hollander

We're going to take a hit, no question about it.

Tom Jr.

With the wind blowing, (and) shooting 2 under here, you've got to be happy, there's no question about that.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Bill Uttley

The more questions that are being answered, the more get asked.

Bob Garcia

It's a severe bite. Certainly, it's up there with the worst we've seen. There's no question about it.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Rich Gadomski

They may be worn out, over-used, mishandled, abused. It is a question of how reliable is the source you got it from. Unfortunately, that is not always a very safe bet.

Charles Dickens

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

Charles Caleb Colton

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Charles Caleb Colton

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

Charles Caleb Colton

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Charles Caleb Colton

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.