Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Buckley

I think he cleared his mind and played. I think he's got the confidence and belief back.

Hans Eysenck

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Pierre Beaumarchais

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?

Henry Drummond

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

Gary Busby

As principals, we often share the belief with parents that education for their children is a journey and not a race. I am very proud of all those former students who have become successful or happy with their lives.

Alphonso Jackson

They tout the belief that if blacks want to succeed in this country, there is only one path: reliance on the government.

Lee Blalack

This man has been humiliated beyond belief by his own hand.

Don Kennedy

It's a hypothesis that's not testable, and one of the important recognition factors for science and scientific ideas is the notion of testability, that you can go out and do an experiment and learn from it and change your idea. That's just not possible with a notion that's as much a belief in spirituality as intelligent design is.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Charles Dyer

We feel very strongly about all children having an equal opportunity for education,

Lesleigh Drye

We got our favorite cookie and our favorite chocolate and our favorite nut mix. And then we got suckers to make our children happy.

Mona Simpson

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

Mark Finkelstein

We're very excited about this. This is a great thing for the children.

Nina Holland

Very young children can just not protect themselves as effectively as adults can.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Lance Armstrong

Fear is priceless education.

Lisa Loeb

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

Lisa Loeb

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

John Updike

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Jon Abernathy

I'm really happy for him. That weight is so tough.

Tom Stephens

I'm really happy for her. She runs the team on and off the floor, and she's a super kid.

Lindsay Davenport

I'm really happy first of all, I was able to come here and get through all these matches and still feel healthy and ready to go for New York,

Janica Kostelic

I'm really happy about my first run. I only made one tiny mistake. Otherwise I skied very fast.

Larry Anderson

I'm quite happy with where we are considering we lost six seniors.

Jeff Stoughton

I'm putting the broom down better. It's still not perfect, but we're happy with the win. ... We're a long way from winning anything yet.

Grant Billmeier

I'm just so happy for those two, especially.

Alex Winter

I'm kind of happy to say I make weird movies - that part of it I'm really proud of.

Amy Sedaris

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Every journey starts with fear.

Helen Frankenthaler

Every canvas is a journey all its own.

John C. Maxwell

I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.

John C. Maxwell

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

James Scott

I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments in life when you are not attached to something, and you are not quite sure what the next phase of your journey is going to look like, that you don't pigeon-hole yourself.

Libby Trickett

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

Louis Pasteur

If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.

John Cleese

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Matt Watson

I'm very proud of the guys. We swam very well when we could've just showed up, we showed a lot of pride.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

John F. Kennedy

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

Jonathan Ive

We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money,

Jonah Goldberg

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Jon Stewart

If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.

Kate Beckinsale

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.