Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.

Ayn Rand

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Powell Clayton

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Smiley Blanton

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Emily Hughes

Making it here is such an accomplishment for me. I don't have any expectations, just to go out there and attack everything and skate my best.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Ville Nieminen

Obviously, if you were born in Finland, you want to play Sweden. That's the ultimate. The situation can't get any better, can't get any more exciting.

Ville Nieminen

Obviously, if you're born in Finland you want to play Sweden and the other way around. That's the ultimate. It can't get more exciting.

Cesare Beccaria

Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.

Welsh Proverb

Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born

Pete Rose

I broke the record on Sept. 11 and I was born the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank (April 14).

Bhagavad Gita

I am rich and born in a noble family. I am the greatest. I shall perform sacrifice, I shall give charity, and I shall rejoice. Thus deluded by ignorance

I. Stone

But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Lori Petty

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Conrad Sewell

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

Joel Kinnaman

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

Miles Teller

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

Robert Wilson

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

Ken Mika

I grew up in a town that has 10 meat markets.

Jesse Plemons

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Booker T. Washington

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Robert Frost

Ants are a curious race

Lizzo

But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.

Michael Jackson

Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me....

Michael Novak

Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.