Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Donaldson

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Raymond Loewy

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Jacky Gaddis

They are not real free throws in Elks, because no one is tired. I have always thought that they should have to run, then shoot.

Donyell Marshall

They were more when we were shooting our free throws. I couldn't really tell when I was shooting my jump shots.

David Gunn

They want at least one transportation mode that is totally free market.

Lance Ulanoff

They just start using the free storage space, putting up their photos, and every once in a while they get a very nasty surprise.

Don Stout

They litigated and lost, and now they don't get a free pass.

Gordie Kerkman

They learned to shoot the three better since the last time we played them. I didn't know if we could stop their threes, but we hit our free throws.

Brian Morse

It was highly unlikely for us to make that many free throws down the stretch.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Louis Agassiz

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

John F. Kennedy

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were. [...] The truth doesn't die.

John Donne

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.