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.

Charles R. Swindoll

I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!

Charles Churchill

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

Brandon Sanderson

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

Ashwin Sanghi

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

Baruch Spinoza

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Bertrand Russell

Worry is a form of fear.

Busy Philipps

The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!

Alain de Botton

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Charles R. Swindoll

Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

Derrick Rose

I couldn't worry about anyone else but myself and my health.

Bruce Lee

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

John Newcombe

Things will get pretty serious if he (Philippoussis) doesn't get something going by the end of the year.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Sam Hill

There are some pretty serious felonies on the list,

Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Donald Wuerl

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Don Herold

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Dalai Lama

If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.