Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

Rose Byrne

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

Winston Churchill

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Zadie Smith

The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

Henry Rollins

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

P. J. O'Rourke

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Paul Christopher

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

Jacob Sullum

What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal. It doesn't get much more personal than that.

Totie Fields

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

Richard Louv

Green exercise improves psychological health.

Rudolf Steiner

People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.

William Ames

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

William Randolph Hearst

We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right.

William Butler Yeats

What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

Steve Vai

Make an exercise out of everything you can’t do.

Rebecca Solnit

The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral pleasures. It weighs the obvious against what in its terms are incomprehensible. When I drive from here to there, speed, privacy, control, and safety are easy to claim. When I walk, what happens is more vague, more ambiguous-and in many circumstances much richer. I am out in the world. It's exercise, though not so quantifiably as on a treadmill in a gym with a digital readout.

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Richard Engel

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

Don Evans

I'm not scared here, ... I feel very safe here, quite frankly. And I'll tell you what else -- the people of Iraq are not scared.

Nancy Pelosi

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader,

Nancy Pelosi

Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Rod Stewart

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Jason Wallace

That leaves it up to me to make plays and open it up for him, and then we'll be pretty interchangeable.

John Reid

take stock because there can be no justification for the kind of violence that leaves 39 police officers injured.

Josh Franco

It puts a strain on you. It leaves us wondering what are we going to do?

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Baha'u'llah

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

Tracy Kidder

I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

Daddy Yankee

The shooters had mistaken me for someone else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Edward Teller

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

Jim Leach

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

William Sullivan

There's a lot of optimism that this stimulus is going to work.

David Land

There's a lot of optimism in the sector and not a lot of pessimism.

Madeleine Albright

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Bill Gates

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Greg Zipadelli

What I'm proudest of this season is how we've battled throughout every weekend,

Rick Barnes

He had to step back and look at a lot of things. I'm proud of him, because he took a tough situation and got the most out of it.

Rex Ryan

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Robin Tunney

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

Robert Schumann

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Roseanne Barr

I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?'

Roh Moo-hyun

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Yoko Ono

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Kobe Bryant

I was a little tired at the end, but I was motivated.

Marshall Overley

He was tired and we thought it was too far. We're just going to have to go for it.

Richelle Mead

Sage," he said. "What are you wearing?" I sighed and stared down at the dress. "I know. It's red. Don't start. I'm tired of hearing about it." "Funny," he said. "I don't think I could ever get tired of looking at it.

Sarah MacLean

Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?” She gave a short laugh. “If the man you speak of had ever planned on coming, my lord, I’m afraid he has obviously lost his way. And, at twenty-eight, I find I have grown tired of waiting.

Vincent Van Gogh

I never get tired of the blue sky.

Whitney Houston

I'm tired of people taking off their clothes.

Van Morrison

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

Van Morrison

Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.

Sarah Jessica Parker

You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

Parker Stevenson

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam

Ed Bradley

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Francis Ford Coppola

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Amos Bronson Alcott

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.