Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Bai Ling

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Augustine Birrell

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Augustine Birrell

The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.

Aubrey McClendon

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

Juvenal

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

C. S. Lewis

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

C. S. Lewis

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

Bryant H. McGill

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

Tom Taulli

Back in 1998 and 1999, you got a domain name that sounded cool, raised a lot of money, rolled the dice and hopefully something good would come out of it.

Kelvin Sampson

We just had to roll the dice and keep Terrell in there.

Michio Kaku

God throws dice, what can I say?

Leon Hall

Last year we never saw any of the kids from the southern schools and just kind of rolled the dice to see how you did. This year we know where we sit.

Emily Giffin

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Andriy Shevchenko

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

Sophocles

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

Tacitus

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

Steve Guttenberg

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

Graeme Souness

I am saddened at the way things have worked out. I wish the club, the players and the supporters good fortune and success going forward.

David Nicholson

My good fortune was that I married her.

Marcus Aurelius

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough