Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Alia Shawkat

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a little piece of that character, cause it's a part of you you're using.

Ali Smith

We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Alexander Koch

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

Alexander Herzen

It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.

Alexander Hamilton

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Alexander Hamilton

It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of Great Britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the President of the United States. It is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.

Alexander Hamilton

The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Mario Theissen

They are the quickest; they are the most consistent; they were fast even on different strategies.

Reggie Theus

They're a team that tries to slow the game down, and we're a team that tries to play as fast as possible. It's going to be a matter of who can get the tempo to go their way.

Al Groh

They're kind of back to that old Florida State, NASCAR offense. 'Gentlemen, start your engines.' They run four of them down the field as fast as they can run, he (Weatherford) throws it up, and one of them makes a play.

Al Groh

They're kind of back to that old Florida State, NASCAR offense, ... 'Gentlemen, start your engines.' They run four of them down the field as fast as they can run, he (Weatherford) throws it up, and one of them makes a play.

Rodney Harrison

They're big, fast and strong, that's what they are,

Jarome Iginla

They're a good team, they're fast and we knew they would be. We've got to match that and unfortunately we didn't.

Joe Sakic

They're a good hockey team. They're a hockey team that's fast and works their butts off.

Bobby Kielty

It was one of those things -- when it got to be 2-0, I wanted to see a fastball and get a hack on it.

O. Winston

It wasn't heavy work, that's the main thing. It's fast but not heavy, and I don't mind the work, so that's how I got by.

Gordon Bethune

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

Ted Kulongoski

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

Marc Racicot

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

Sidney Hook

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Shane Warne

Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.

Taylor Swift

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

Lil Wayne

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

Pythagoras

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Anna Kendrick

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

Angela Lansbury

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

Angela Merkel

I believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand, we have a strong interest in Russia developing in a reasonable direction.

Angela Merkel

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

Amy Chua

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

Alva Myrdal

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Anne Sexton

You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.