Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

George Woodberry

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Walter Savage Landor

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

Jose Saramago

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

Epictetus

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Mike Patton

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

William J. Clinton

That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.

Robert Trout

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

Vladimir Lenin

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Vladimir Lenin

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

Wangari Maathai

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

Willard Van Orman Quine

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

Zainab Salbi

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

Zach Braff

Best movie ever?! Come on, my appearance on Arrested Development had more dynamics, realism and feel to it than the whole trilogy combined.

Vladimir Putin

We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.

Robert Toombs

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Rudy Giuliani

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

Wendell Phillips

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

Joseph Kabila

The institutions of the republic are in place.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

James Connolly

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland

Noah Webster

Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.

Mike Pence

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.