Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Clarence Darrow

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Roger Staubach

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

Steven Morrissey

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

Sun Tzu

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

Ben Affleck

You get old, you slow down.

Donatella Versace

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

Thomas Merton

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

Ricky Skaggs

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

Henry Louis Gates

I have no plans to slow down.

Jhene Aiko

There’s no slowing down as the globe spins ‘round and ‘round. You gotta keep going.

Lauren Holly

Life NEVER slows down.