Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Clara Barton

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Debby Ryan

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

Dalai Lama

We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

Dalai Lama

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

Dodie Smith

Oh, wise young judge.

Diogenes

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Diogenes

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Matt Bomer

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Hayley Williams

My hair is made of actual fire, you guys.

Heraclitus

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

Heraclitus

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

John Lennon

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

Jimmy Cliff

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

Bill Durham

They smell that fire and go bananas. Some of them can't handle the pressure of that kind of atmosphere. We've had many, many horses people don't see.

David Burns

There was no reason the fire would have started in the middle of the night like this.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

Herbie Hancock

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.

Henry David Thoreau

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

Jill Scott

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

Jessica Chastain

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Jean de La Fontaine

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Godfried Danneels

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.