Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Henry David Thoreau

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Henry David Thoreau

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

Henry David Thoreau

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Henry David Thoreau

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

Harper Lee

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Angie Martinez

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.

Tom Cochrane

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

Todd Solondz

When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

Socrates

I only know how little I know

Sidney Lumet

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dazed, Nick nodded, then looked to Caleb. “I’m such an effing idiot.” “We knew that,” he said drily. “We definitely didn’t have to throw you into a coma for that little-known nugget.

Noel Gallagher

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Steve Lawson

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

Steve Guttenberg

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

Steve Aoki

On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content. When I travel, I travel with a videographer and a photographer no matter what.

Stendhal

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Shelley Winters

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

Shahid Kapoor

Life is just too short, too unpredictable and too complicated. Be happy no matter what, a smile sometimes is all you need

Shahrukh Khan

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

Serinda Swan

To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron.''