Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Boston

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Margaret Mitchell

Hardships make or break people.

Philip Sidney

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter.

Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

John F. Kennedy

Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.

Adriana Lima

You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Dan Simmons

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Diane Ackerman

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Donald Miller

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Clare Boothe Luce

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

Christopher Walken

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

Anna Louise Strong

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

Edward Norton

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Donald Knuth

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Andrew Weil

Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

Anne Sexton

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

Robert A. Heinlein

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

Steven Heller

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.

Stephen Sondheim

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

St. Jerome

Woman is the root of all evil.