Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Thomas Carlyle

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Tony Campolo

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

Steve Perry

Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves?

Steve Martin

A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

Steve Carell

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

Steve Carell

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

Ron Paul

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Albert Einstein

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

Albert Einstein

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Albert Einstein

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

Ali Larter

Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Dear Abbey

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

A. J. Jacobs

I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

A. A. Milne

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

Adam Gopnik

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

William Shakespeare

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

William Shakespeare

A little water clears us of this deed.