Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Plautus

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

Plautus

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

Plautus

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Plato

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

Plato

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

Philip Zimbardo

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

John Stuart Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Pete Smith

It's obvious the House recognizes the serious difficulties with this whole approach. It would have shortchanged the municipalities, and it would have shortchanged the state's general fund, which are recipes for tax increases.

Scott Aaronson

There will be parking for the general public, but I'm not sure if there will be a parking fee.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.

Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Michael Phelps

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Evel Knievel

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

Samuel Johnson

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

Ronnie Wood

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.

Walter Scott

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

Marat Safin

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

James H. Douglas

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

Laurence Sterne

In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.

Robert Kiyosaki

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

Tamora Pierce

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Ray Allen

Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

Chris Pearmund

For the first year of production, the wines will be made somewhere else.

Corey Claitt

I just wanted a different environment. I wanted to be on my own. I wanted to go somewhere and be by myself.

Jan Roberts

I'm averaging somewhere around 21 and a half, which is disappointing considering the window sticker told me I'd be averaging somewhere around 31.

Marie Osmond

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Grover Cleveland

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

Orson Scott Card

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Simone Elkeles

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.

Simone Elkeles

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Weil

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Robert Anthony

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

Robert Altman

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

Sam Smith

But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

Rush Limbaugh

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.