Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Ryan Kwanten

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

Russell Baker

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Tyler Hilton

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

Tyler Oakley

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

Tyler Perry

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Toyo Ito

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

William Jennings Bryan

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

Woody Allen

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.

Travis Hafner

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

Walter Benjamin

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Joseph Addison

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Phyllis Diller

Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.

Joss Whedon

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Thomas de Quincey

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

George Washington

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.