Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Spear

Ray's a good friend of mine, but maybe this is political payback?

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Peter Schmitt

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Mark Greene

She's usually pretty happy-go-lucky, just friendly and always up. But she's in a different place right now.

Franz Beckenbauer

Since Jurgen Klinsmann took over, the team has only played friendly matches, but now, for the first time, they are taking part in a real competition.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Donald Rumsfeld

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Anita Hill

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Ronald D. Moore

The difficult notes are when they say, "And this is how we want you to fix it . . ." Just tell me what the problem is. Just tell me what the issue is, and I'll go off an fix it. It's usually when executives get to a place where they're trying to fix the problem for you that you have issues

Susan Love

Avoid secret's! Be open about which you are. It takes too much energy to hide in the closet about any issue.

Michael Baumgartner

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Ray Bradbury

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

Randy Jackson

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Drew Gilpin Faust

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

Doug Stanhope

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Chuck Palahniuk

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

Andy Stanley

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Joe Zwilling

What it is we may have overlooked, and why we might want to reconsider. We'll listen to what they have to say.

Amy Sedaris

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Rick Owens

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

Robert Anton Wilson

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

A. Hodge

They are 4-0 for a reason. We know it is going to be a true test.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Isabel Allende

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

Robert Pattinson

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Quintus Ennius

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty

Carla Ponte

It is true that the co-operation with Belgrade has started,

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.