Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

David Tudor

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Charlotte Bronte

He made me love him without looking at me.

Chetan Bhagat

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Billy Wilder

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Sam Dixon

It's extremely rare. She's the exception to the rule.

Warren Moon

This is a big year for him, ... He's in a group of exceptions to the rule. This is his team. Everything is in place. Yeah, I'd say it's a big year.

Thomas Fuller

There is no useful rule without an exception

Carlos Delgado

This is a very unique opportunity. It is once in a lifetime and you have to make exceptions and adjustments. I am proud of being Puerto Rican, and we think this is a big deal.

Dennis Speigel

They're gambling they're going to spend more money inside the park once they arrive. I'm seeing that at the majority of the parks, with the exception of Disney.

Tom Davis

There's always exceptions to the rule, ... but I think when you're looking at guards that don't shoot a great percentage, a lot of it is confidence.

Walter Winnitzki

Dell is more the exception to the rule than the rule for what we're gonna see from other technology companies. This is Dell picking up market share in a no-growth market.

Yvonne Taylor

Anything we're required to keep is an open record, unless there are exceptions in state or federal law.