Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charlie Munger

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

Bill Belichick

All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.

William Shakespeare

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

Carl Levin

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably

Calvin Trillin

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Deepak Chopra

A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.

William Shakespeare

More can I bear than you dare execute.

Bob Francis

We're going to endure, I guess. I think we owe that to Jim to be there.

Bliss Carman

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Thomas Grandi

(It's not like) swimming, or any sport where the endurance factor is such a big deal. In a sport like skiing, you just get it one day. All of a sudden, you're skiing great, and there may not be a real explanation for that.

Malcolm Gladwell

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

Djuna Barnes

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Greg Hulse

I've always liked the 50 - I never had much endurance. I was kind of a 200 free person for a while when I was 12 or 13. I did the 200 free, 200 back, 200 fly. But as I got older, I fell away from it and started doing the shorter stuff.

Blaise Pascal

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Bruce Lee

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Carolyn Porco

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

Carolyn Wells

Circumstances alter faces.

C. S. Lewis

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Aaron Sorkin

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Charlie Munger

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

Charles Manson

I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug.

Bill Ayers

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?