Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debbi Fields

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Steve Jobs

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Regina Brett

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Sue Grafton

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Michael Caine

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

Patti Davis

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Jennifer Lawrence

It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.

Aziz Ansari

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

Carl Sandburg

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

C. S. Lewis

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Al Yankovic

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

Al Gore

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

bell hooks

The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.

Austan Goolsbee

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Diane Abbott

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

Gary Arthur

Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. Somehow, I feel partly responsible, you know?

Alan Ackerman

Techs have gone from terrific to tepid to terrible,

E. Hicks

The search has gone into a new phase.

Clyde Shaw

I've never imagined something like this before. It's just the judicial system gone awry. It's a horrible, horrible thing. Our instruments are our voices, our souls.

John Turner

The security mission, which has always been there, has gone more to the forefront,

Jake Moreland

I should have had that second goal. That was my fault. It was a soft goal. It shouldn't have gone in.

Paule Marshall

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

James Woods

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

Diane Duane

Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!