Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Piper

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Peter Drucker

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

John Wooden

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

Herman Cain

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

Gil Scott-Heron

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

Jeanne Moreau

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

Harold Brodkey

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Iyanla Vanzant

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

Ken Dulaney

You should take all user interfaces out of your applications,

Janet Jackson

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

Miley Cyrus

She did not use it at all well mostly.

bell hooks

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

Dean Koontz

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Dean Koontz

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

Billy Bragg

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

Billy Campbell

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

Brene Brown

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Brad Meltzer

We're all being tested...That's what life is.

Brad Meltzer

Life is filled with trapdoors.

Matthew Arnold

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Diana Wynne Jones

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

Bram Stoker

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Boris Pasternak

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Charles Spurgeon

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.