Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Jean King

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Ben Harper

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

Douglas Coupland

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Adam Sandler

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Douglas MacArthur

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Debbi Fields

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Reed Hastings

Be big, fast and flexible.

T. D. Jakes

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Aiden Wilson Tozer

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

Stephen Graham Jones

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.

Janet Malcolm

Malice remains its animating impulse.

Twyla Tharp

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

Thornton Wilder

And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead,

Henry Grunwald

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.

Anna Quindlen

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

Alfre Woodard

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

Marilynne Robinson

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

Mick Mandl

Wouldn't it be great if it was somebody down on their luck who got the $365 million? Hopefully, they would be generous and leave us a tip.

Edmund Burke

Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.

John Connell

It was opened up. Juan is a very generous player. He set up so many potential goals.

Christian Camargo

Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

Dick Gephardt

So this is what the lobbyists and other wealthy individuals got for their money. They get their overly generous share of the tax bill.

James Barnett

The university is very grateful for this generous gift.

Emmylou Harris

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

David Stewart

There are generous people in this community. We have a pretty tight application process, we want to know where our money's going.

Katie Holmes

He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend.