Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William Gilmore Simms

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Robert Ringer

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Robert Ley

Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

Sanford I. Weill

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

Will Smith

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

Will Smith

Greatness exists in all of us.

Saint Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Robert Duvall

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Wil Wheaton

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

William H. Wharton

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Henry Rollins

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

Jon Meacham

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Pierre Salinger

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

Molly Ivins

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Molly Ivins

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

Rob Reiner

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

Rob Zombie

I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

Ronda Rousey

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

David Irons

I'm just trying to get in the swing of things and learn the new system. It's not what we did last year, so it's real confusing at times.

Shane Olivea

It's night and day. Mentally, it's just so much easier. Now you can just go out there and work on the physical and just react. This year, nothing is confusing to me.

Rick Mueller

The new specifications are confusing folks. It makes it hard to know where we stand when it comes to inventories.

Bob Matthews

It's already confusing enough. Now that they can make changes, it'll be even more confusing.

David Caldwell

It's easier and less confusing for the jury.

Jeff Foster

They are doing great. It's been a confusing day for them for sure, but after a day they could settle down and feel at home.