Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

John Walker Lindh

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

Goldie Hawn

Marriage is ridiculous.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Jeremy Piven

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

Dan O'Brien

I always know where the scissors are.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Theo Epstein

had a lot of honest talks in that last week, reflecting on ourselves and the organization and the job, and whether it was right for me and for the team.

Dave Auday

Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly thought we would be the No. 2 team and we proved it today.

Brett Hall

He's been taking input on this from everyone. I honestly don't know what he's going to do.

George Crabbe

What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Norm Coleman

We take very seriously the importance of testifying honestly before this committee,

Maria Sharapova

I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not.

Lord Shaftesbury

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Tom Wall

He was probably one of the most honest people I've ever run across.

Walter Bagehot

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Mark Twain

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Baltasar Gracian

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Arianna Huffington

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Aries Spears

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Drew Carey

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Victor Hugo

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.