Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift

Appreciate what you have while you have it.

Steven Tyler

I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.

Michael Kors

Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality

Pablo Schreiber

I really appreciate what the writers are doing and respect everything that they do. So, I was satisfied, for sure.

Laini Taylor

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Michael Klim

A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.

Neal McCoy

So many artists do so much throughout the year to help others and none of us do it for the recognition. But, it is nice to get a pat on the back and I really appreciate it." ()

Jeff Warner

Obviously these are funds that are very much needed. We really appreciate the county's careful spending of taxpayer dollars.

Dominique English

Nicole ... is overlooked. But we as a team appreciate her, so she knows that she's doing good.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

Cate Blanchett

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

Joseph de Maistre

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Kate Smith

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Kate Millett

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

Linda Tripp

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

Pema Chodron

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

Pema Chodron

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

Pythagoras

But respect yourself most of all.

Josiah Royce

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

Kofi Annan

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.